Lucas Carey is a music composer and producer based in Los Angeles. He has scored nearly a dozen films and numerous media projects—many of which focus on queer subjects—including works by directors Stephen Winter, Nick Oceano, and John Cameron Mitchell. His music has classical roots with a modern timbral sense: heartfelt, unique, and beautiful.
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Originally from the Midwest, Lucas earned a B.A. in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2009 where he studied with Laura Schwendinger. In 2012, he earned an M.M. in Music Theory and Composition from New York University and studied with Dinu Ghezzo, former professor emeritus.
Lucas has written and produced music for nearly a dozen short and feature film projects, including Stephen Winter’s critically-acclaimed featureJason and Shirley(which had a theatrical run at NYC’s Museum of Modern Art [MoMA] in 2016), queer film festival featureThe Revival(dir. Jennifer Gerber, 2017), and Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Feature winnerSocks on Fire(dir. Bo McGuire, 2020), as well as numerous news and documentary projects produced by the New York Times, such asLand of Good(dir. Ainara Tiefenthaler), which won the Best Digital Media Story prize at the 2018 RIAS Berlin Kommission Awards. Recently, he scored John Cameron Mitchell’s fictional podcast seriesCancellation Islandwhich will be released by Topic Studios in 2024.
In December of 2022, Lucas released the albumThe Recurring Vision of a Strangerfeaturing looped clarinet phrases swirling over fuzzy analog synth beats.
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