Biography

Lucas Amory

Pianist & Conductor

Pianist and Conductor Lucas Amory is a versatile soloist and chamber musician. 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, where he was also awarded the Robert D. Levin and David McCord Prizes for his musical achievements. 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. In 2026 he was featured as a resident artist at L’Atelier in New Baltimore, NY, where he recorded and performed the complete Debussy Etudes in collaboration with Grammy-winning producer Patrick Lo Re, the first in a four-part series on the L’Atelier Musical recording label. As a solo recitalist, he has performed on the Dame Myra Hess Recital series in Chicago, and the Prelude Recital to the PianoArts Foundation North American 2026 Competition, on the Music Middays Series at Advent Lutheran Church, and at the Adams Theater in the Berkshires, among other places.

Among other chamber music festivals, he has attended the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Prussia Cove, Norfolk, Four Seasons, and Taos, and is the pianist in the Marlboro Festival Ross Garon Trio Çava and 2024-5 Juilliard Honors ensemble Trio PUMA. He is one half of the Rehmus Duo with his violinist sister Leah, and together they’ve toured and performed in Milwaukee, New York, and Philadelphia. Other chamber music residencies include stints at Marlboro, Yellow Barn, and Lehigh Valley Chamber Music.

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, which is set for a new installment in 2026-2027.

As a conductor, he is the current Music Director of the CHROMAS Ensemble in New York, which seeks to give back to NYC non-profits and organizations around it through its concert revenue. 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.

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.