ANDREW LANE
Principal Pops & Resident Conductor

Andrew Lane became Resident Conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic in 1994, and has since been featured in dozens of productions featuring prominent guest soloists. Starting this season, Andy’s title changes to Principal Pops and Resident Conductor to more accurately reflect Andy’s contributions to the Philharmonic. A driving force in musical education, Maestro Lane has developed and implemented the Orlando Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts for over 250,000 school children since 1994. As conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic’s Darden Family Series, his unique programming has created a concert experience that awakens curiosity, imagination, wonder, and awareness of orchestral music. As Music Director of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra, he has realized a positive impact on hundreds of young musicians throughout Central Florida.

Maestro Lane has served as Principal Conductor of Southern Ballet Theatre, (now Orlando Ballet) where he has conducted performances of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Serenade, and Carmen ballets. He has been featured as Guest Conductor with the Rochester Philharmonic, Naples Philharmonic and The Florida Orchestra. Maestro Lane has been featured as conductor on over two dozen recordings of movie music, Broadway and orchestral “pops” music recorded for Madacy Entertainment Group of Quebec, Canada.

The Orlando Sentinel has called the performances under his direction “well rehearsed” and “grand.” The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle said, “Andrew Lane gave Tchaikovsky his due. He brought clarity, balance and precision to the ensemble.”

As a French horn instrumentalist, Lane began his musical career with the United States Navy Band in Washington D.C. After leaving the Navy in 1986, he became an active free-lance horn player in the Washington area performing with the American Chamber Orchestra, Washington Chamber Orchestra, Kennedy Center Orchestra and National Gallery Orchestra. In 1990, he became a member of the French horn section of the Florida Orchestra and in 1991, he won a position with the Florida Symphony Orchestra in Orlando.

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