Pianist and conductor Lucas Amory is a versatile solo and chamber pianist based in New York, and is the current Music Director of the CHROMAS Ensemble. He holds a Master’s degree from the Juilliard School in Piano Performance and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in Music and German, as well as the 2024 Robert D. Levin Prize in Music Performance. He counts Julian Martin, Hae-Sun Paik, and Shai Wosner among his most important mentors.
Lucas is the first prize winner of the PianoArts 2024 North American Competition in Milwaukee and 2022 James Yannatos Harvard Concerto Competition. He is a chamber music specialist, and has attended the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Prussia Cove, Norfolk, and is a proud member of the 63rd Taos School of Music Cohort, among other festivals. He is the pianist in the Marlboro Festival Ross Garon Trio Çava and 2024-5 Juilliard Honors ensemble Trio PUMA, as well as one half of the Rehmus Duo with his violinist sister Leah, and together they’ve toured and performed in Milwaukee, New York, and Philadelphia. As a conductor he is a former Music Director of Harvard’s Bach Society Orchestra, and has involved himself in countless opera and musical theater productions both in directorial and répétiteur roles.
As a performer of contemporary music, he has collaborated with many esteemed artists and composers including Matt Aucoin and the American Modern Opera Company, Bruce Adolphe, Nico Muhly, and Claire Chase, and collaborated with clarinetist Anoush Takuhi Pogossian on the interdisciplinary Armenian music project Komitas and Friends involving five commissions and premieres from student composers at Juilliard. When not playing piano or conducting, Lucas looks to further himself in all things music; he was employed as a Ferris Fellow baritone in the Harvard University Choir, enjoys private teaching, improvises, and explores historical performance practice on the classical fortepiano. In his down time, he enjoys long-distance runs and following Boston sports.
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