Keith Lockhart

About Keith Lockhart

Keith Lockhart (born November 7, 1959, Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.) is an orchestral conductor.

He is the current Music Director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, taking over from John Williams in 1995. Previous to this, Lockhart was associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops, as well as Music Director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, all based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lockhart is an alumnus of Furman University, and of the Brevard Music Center, where he had his first experience of conducting. He was a conducting fellow at Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute.

Now in his fourteenth season as conductor of the Boston Pops, Keith Lockhart has conducted more than 900 concerts in Symphony Hall and around the world, including 28 national tours, 12 Fourth of July concerts on Boston's Esplanade, four overseas tours of Japan and South Korea, and performances at Carnegie Hall. In 2002, he led the Boston Pops in the pre-game show of Super Bowl XXXVI at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans marking the first time an orchestra was featured in performance during a Super Bowl. The Boston Pops has released eight albums on RCA Victor under Mr. Lockhart — Runnin' Wild: The Boston Pops Play Glenn Miller, American Visions, The Celtic Album, Holiday Pops, A Splash of Pops, Encore!, The Latin Album, and the latest My Favorite Things — A Richard Rodgers Celebration.