Keith Lockhart

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart was born in Poughkeepsie, New York in November 1959 and began piano lessons at the age of seven, later studying music at Furman University and Carnegie-Mellon University. After concurrently serving as Carnegie-Mellon's Director of Orchestral Activities and as Conductor of the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra, Lockhart was named Assistant Conductor of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Akron Youth Symphony in 1988; a year later, he was tapped as one of two Conducting Fellows of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, and in 1990, he...