Pianist and conductor Lucas Amory is a first year Masters student in Piano Performance at the Juilliard School in the studio of Julian Martin, having recently graduated from Harvard as a recipient of the Robert Levin Prize in Music Performance with a double concentration in German and Music, while concurrently under the tutelage of Hae-Sun Paik at the New England Conservatory of Music. The first prize winner of the PianoArts 2024 North American Competition in Milwaukee, Lucas has also received top prizes at the James Yannatos Concerto Competition, Lyra Young Artists Music Competition, the Claudette Sorel International Piano Competition, and the Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition. Lucas is also a 2020 Presidential Scholar of the Arts Semifinalist and National YoungArts Foundation Finalist in Classical Music. 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, Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, Claire Chase, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and is honored to count Alessio Bax, Eileen Buck, Lynn Chang, and Kathy Chi among his mentors as well. When not playing piano, Lucas is an active conductor and baritone, and looks to further himself in all things music; he is the outgoing 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 well as having been employed as a Ferris Fellow in the Harvard University Choir.