Keith Lockhart is the conductor of the Boston Pops,  the Music Director of the Utah Symphony and the Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.

Education:
Born on November 7, 1959, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Lockhart began his musical studies at age seven when he took piano lessons. He earned two degrees from Furman University in Greenville, SC in 1981, -- B.Mus. in Piano Performance (Summa Cum Laude) and B.A. in German (Summa Cum Laude). He holds an M.F.A. in Orchestral Conducting from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA which he completed in 1983. He also holds honorary doctorates from Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Centre College in Danville, KY, Furman University, Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, and Northeastern University.

Background:
Prior to his arrival in Boston, Lockhart served as music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra for seven years, completing his tenure in 1999. He also served as associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras from 1990 to 1995.

As a guest conductor, Lockhart has worked with the major symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus (Ohio), Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis and Toronto. In addition he has performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the St. Paul, (Minn.) Chamber Orchestra and the New York Chamber Symphony.

Internationally, he worked with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester of Berlin on New Year’s Eve in December 2002 and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in June 2003. He has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Edmonton, Montreal, Singapore, Toronto, Vancouver, the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London.

Operatic credits include Puccini’s Tosca with the Boston Lyric Opera in 2004, The Ballad of Baby Doe with the Washington (D.C.) Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and La Rondine for the Utah Symphony & Opera, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann with the Boston Lyric in 2008 and Mark Blitzstein's Regina in Utah in January of 2009.