LUCAS RICHMAN
Music Director and Conductor
GRAMMY award-winning conductor Lucas Richman has served as Music Director for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra since 2010 and held the position as Music Director for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2015. Over the course of over four decades on the podium, he has garnered an international reputation for his graceful musical leadership in a diverse field of media. In concert halls, orchestral pits and recording studios around the world, Richman earns rave reviews for his artful collaborations with artists in both the classical and commercial music arenas.
He has appeared as guest conductor with numerous orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the SWR Radio Orchestra of Kaiserslautern, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Israel Camerata Orchestra Jerusalem and the Zagreb Philharmonic.
In recent years, Mr. Richman has led performances with notable soloists in both the classical and pop worlds, ranging from Mstislav Rostropovich, Lang Lang, Midori, Gil Shaham, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and Frederica von Stade to James Taylor, Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Matthew Morrison, Martin Short, Victor Borge and Brian Wilson. His numerous collaborations with film composers as their conductor has yielded recorded scores for such films as the Academy Award-nominated The Village (with violinist, Hilary Hahn), As Good As It Gets, Face/Off, Se7en, The Manchurian Candidate, White Noise, Madame Web and Highest 2 Lowest; in 2010, John Williams invited him to lead the three-month national summer tour of Star Wars in Concert. Mr. Richman received a GRAMMY Award (2011) in the category of Best Classical Crossover Album for having conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Christopher Tin’s classical/world fusion album, Calling All Dawns.
Also an accomplished composer, Mr. Richman has had his music performed by over two hundred orchestras and ensembles across the United States, with the Bangor Symphony having premiered eleven of those works during his tenure. Premieres in 2024 included the Vatican premiere of the chamber opera, Blood&Breath; his recent CD release of solo piano works, Lucas Richman: Variations, is available for sale in the lobby and online. For more information, visit www.lucasrichman.com.
Official Biography for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, 2025-2026 season