LUCAS CANTOR SANTIAGO
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Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author of Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2x Emmy Award winner for the Olympics (2008 and 2012)
Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and speaker. Lucas is the author of Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (December 2025).
He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games since 2002. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. Lucas composed the music that opened the 2025 and 2023 NFL Super Bowl coverage on Fox.
Other career highlights include:
Lucas finished Schubert’s 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall.
He wrote the original score for Failure To Protect, a documentary that so far in 2022, has won several film festivals.
He co-wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox.
He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters
He was commissioned by the finance giant SoftBank to write an octet utilizing AI called SoftBank Sinfonia.
Lucas is the Editor-At-Large for Thrive Global’s music section
He delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity
He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan.
He wrote music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix.
Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia
In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants.
He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016.
In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP.
In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy.
In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples.
Speech topics
Speech topics
How to Lead – and Finish - a Symphony
How to Lead – and Finish - a Symphony
Most people have never heard music that is in tune. In fact, All the music you’ve listened to for your entire life has been out of tune. What we need to understand is musical temperament. It’s but one of many quirky details you need to know to command an orchestra. What do you need to know to command the orchestra of your business? How can you best communicate those details to your team, so your organization can thrive, grow, innovate, and finish strong. Cantor uses real life examples from the world of orchestras and recording studios to bring insightful, novel, and actionable lessons to life. You will learn how to see your team, your organization the way a composer sees an orchestra, and you’ll learn the tools a composer uses to bring so many different voices into harmony.
Mastery – Excelling in Life and Work
Mastery – Excelling in Life and Work
Mastery is using your ideas, your experience, your skills and the medium of your time to achieve the result you want. Cantor will walk you through how he writes a piece of music, he’ll show his process layer by layer and musician by musician from piano sketch to full orchestra recording through a multimedia presentation that is easily understandable by the least musically inclined member of the audience, but captivating and illuminating, even to music professionals. You’ll learn how to achieve mastery at what you do. You’ll learn how you break your business into layers and how to make the layers fit together like a perfectly balanced piece of music.
Turning On Your Creative Juices
Turning On Your Creative Juices
Cantor outlines his repeatable process of success using real live examples from the concert stage and the recording studio. You’ll learn how to unlock your creativity and how to treat your work like art so that you’re fulfilled from day to day, but always ready for a big opportunity.
Books
Books
Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Drawing on Cantor Santiago's extensive experience in the arts and tech worlds and his ongoing experiments with AI-powered musicmaking, Unfinished is an engaging and refreshingly optimistic meditation on the role of technology in music and the arts.
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