Music Director

2023-2024 Music Director

Lucas Amory

Pianist and conductor Lucas Amory is a fourth-year undergraduate at Harvard College double concentrating in Music and German with a secondary in Government while pursuing a Masters in Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music in the studio of Hae-Sun Paik, having previously studied with Professor Julian Martin in the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Program. Most recently making his orchestral debut with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in 2023 playing Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto, Lucas is also a 2020 Presidential Scholar of the Arts Semifinalist and National YoungArts Foundation Finalist in Classical Music. As a pianist, he has received top prizes at the James Yannatos Concerto Competition, Lyra Young Artists Music Competition, the Claudette Sorel International Piano Competition, and the Canadian International Piano Competition, among others. In his native New York City, he has performed at the 92nd St.Y, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, and multiple times at Alice Tully Hall. He has collaborated with many esteemed artists including Bruce Adolphe, the Escher String Quartet, Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, and Claire Chase. During the summer, he has attended the Ravinia Steans Institute of Music, Aspen, Music Academy, Yellowbarn, and Morningside Music Bridge. As a conductor, Lucas is the Music Director of Harvard’s Bach Society Orchestra, and has involved himself in many Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club and Harvard College Opera productions, most recently music directing Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. He is also employed as a baritone Ferris Choral Fellow in the University Choir at Memorial Church. In his down time, Lucas enjoys exploring non-classical music, cinema, and following the Boston Red Sox and the Celtics.