Cello with Lucas B.

Lucas teaches and performs in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. He teaches advanced high school students as assistant faculty at Stringwood Chamber Music Festival in Minnesota and has previously taught students of all ages at Eastman Community Music School in Rochester, NY. Lucas is currently a member of The Orchestra Now in residence at Bard College, performing regularly at Bard’s Fisher Center and in New York City at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Metropolitan Museum. In October Lucas performed as soloist in Strauss’s Don Quixote with The Orchestra Now at the Metropolitan Museum and last season Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Catskill Symphony in Oneonta, NY. He has also performed as an orchestral musician with Symphoria, the New World Symphony, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. He performs a broad variety of chamber music, including performances with Society for New Music in Syracuse, Steve Reich’s Triple Quartet with the JACK Quartet, and the premier of Nico Muhly’s “Clip” at Tanglewood. He earned his Master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and Bachelor’s degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Lucas received the Samuel Hayes Memorial Cello Award from the Tanglewood Music Center and the Celentano Award for Excellence in Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music. His cello mentors include Steven Doane, Rosemary Elliott, and Norman Fischer and he has studied chamber music with members of the Concord, Chiara, Juilliard, and Ying quartets. Apart from music, Lucas loves to explore the outdoors and enjoys roasting coffee at home.