Lucie Göckel was born in Marseille into a family with diverse origins: Corsican, Romani, Sephardic Jewish, and Tunisian. These influences have shaped her independence and open-mindedness. At the age of eight, she began creating performances with her parents and two sisters, combining music, dance, theatre, and singing. From this saltimbanque spirit, she retains a strong sense of freedom and vitality.

An artist and educator with multiple influences, Lucie Göckel is a cellist, singer, composer and performer. Trained in both classical and jazz music in Lausanne, she has developed a cross-disciplinary approach that challenges boundaries between styles and genres. She performs in a wide range of settings—concerts, performances, stage productions—and collaborates regularly with artists from theatre, sound poetry, and visual arts.

She also composes for stage and interdisciplinary projects, creating original music for works combining text, voice, installation or video. Her sensitivity leads her to explore the connections between sound, narrative and acoustic textures, in a unique blend of writing and improvisation.

In 2019, she co-founded the Luni Duo, winner of the Lavaux Classic Prize, with whom she develops a personal language that intertwines poetry, song and improvisation. Their project Lumières Doubles, recorded in 2024, will be released in autumn 2025 on the Petit Label.

With her new musical project Prologue, Lucie Göckel gives voice to all her influences, from baroque to jazz, and to everything that has moved her since childhood. By composing and arranging her own songs, she opens a new chapter in her artistic journey.

She also teaches music in several schools and institutions across French-speaking Switzerland, and leads workshops and training sessions focused on creativity, improvisation and cross-disciplinary practices.