Cello

Lucas Button is a cellist and teacher active in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. He is a member of the Virginia Symphony and Cape Symphony and has performed regularly with the Allentown Symphony, Albany Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Syracuse Orchestra. As a former member of The Orchestra Now, Lucas performed regularly at venues throughout New York City, including a performance as soloist in Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lucas has performed chamber music at Tanglewood, Society for New Music in Syracuse, Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, and If Music Be The Food. Lucas can also be spotted in an orchestra scene in season one of HBO’s The Gilded Age.

Lucas is an adjunct faculty member at Bard College, cello instructor at Wharton Arts, and frequent coach at the New Jersey Youth Symphony. He was awarded the Samuel Hayes Memorial Cello Award from the Tanglewood Music Center and the Celentano Award for Excellence in Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music. He studied cello with Steven Doane, Rosemary Elliott, and Norman Fischer and chamber music with members of the Chiara, Concord, Juilliard, and Ying quartets. He earned his masters from Eastman School of Music and bachelors from Rice University. Lucas looks forward to joining Greenwich Music Tutors!