Lankester, Michael (1944– )

English conductor. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London and conducted the English Chamber Orchestra in 1967. He was music director of the National Theatre 1969–75 and conducted opera at the Royal College of Music, London, 1969–80. He made an orchestral suite of Britten's ballet The Prince of the Pagodas, giving the first performance in 1979. From 1980 he worked with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and was conductor-in-residence there 1984–88 and music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra from 1986.