Lucas Richman Lucas Richman has been Music Director and Conductor for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra since 2003. Mr. Richman served as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor from 1998-2002 and Resident Conductor from 2002-2004, during which time he assisted the orchestra’s Music Director, Mariss Jansons, and conducted for soloists such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Garrick Ohlsson, Frank Peter Zimmerman, Gil Shaham, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman and Radu Lupu. From 1988 to 1991 he was the Assistant Conductor for the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Richman has appeared as guest conductor with numerous orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, the SWR Radio Orchestra of Kaiserslautern (Germany) and the Zagreb Philharmonic (Croatia). In recent years, Mr. Richman collaborated with numerous film composers as their conductor, recording scores for such films as the Academy Award-nominated As Good As It Gets, Face/Off, Seven, Breakdown, The Village (with violinist, Hilary Hahn) and The Manchurian Candidate. Having studied privately with Daniel Lewis, Fritz Zweig and Victor Yampolsky, he was also selected as a conducting fellow in master classes with Pierre Boulez, André Previn, Herbert Blomstedt and Kurt Sanderling. Earlier in his musical journey, he toured with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra, for which he was one of four conductors from around the world selected by Leonard Bernstein to share the maestro’s podium for concerts presented in Germany, London and Moscow, and was subsequently awarded the Prix Davidoff. As a composer, Mr. Richman has had his music performed by over two hundred orchestras across the United States in the last ten years. He was recently named the 2005 Composer of the Year by the Tennessee Music Teachers Association and his latest choral work, Arise Triumphant, O Blessed Muse!, was premiered in January, 2005, with Frederica von Stade as the soloist. Upcoming commissions include an oboe concerto for the Pittsburgh Symphony that will be premiered in February, 2006. Mr. Richman is dedicated to the pursuit of introducing music to young people. He was Principal Conductor for the Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra in 1999 and has been Music Director for the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra Camp since 2001. Besides the many young people’s concerts he has led with orchestras across the United States, he has composed a canon of orchestral works written specifically for children, information about which can be found through LeDor Group, Inc. at www.ledorgroup.com