Keith Alan Lockhart is the music director and principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra and the principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra. He has been the music director of the Utah Symphony from 1998 - 2009. He has also held honorary titles in many other orchestras. Keith Lockhart became the twentieth conductor of the Boston Pops in 1995. Lockhart holds the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor chair. He has worked with a wide array of established artists from the entertainment world. He promotes programs that focus on talented young musicians from the Tanglewood Music Center, Boston Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music. He has conducted more than 1,500 Boston Pops concerts and introduced the innovative JazzFest and EdgeFest series, featuring prominent jazz and indie artists performing with the Pops. Lockhart has also introduced concert performances of full-length Broadway shows, including Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel and Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and the PopSearch and High School Sing-Off competitions. [More at Wikipedia]

November 7th, 1959 in Poughkeepsie (Age 64)