LUCAS CANTOR
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Lucas Cantor Santiago is an award-winning composer, platinum producer, multi-instrumentalist, author and speaker.
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’s book Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence was released by Bloomsbury in December 2025.
He co-wrote the theme music for Major League Baseball on NBC and College Basketball on Fox.
Lucas composed the music that opened the 2025 and 2023 NFL Super Bowl coverage on Fox.
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 is a founder and General Partner at Mindset Music Tech, a music technology venture fund, and was named to Billboard’s Finance 50.
He trailerized Bonnie Tyler’s iconic classic Holding Out For a Hero for Netflix’s reboot of He-Man… Masters Of The Universe: Revelation. The spot was nominated for a Clio award, the highest honor in advertising.
He wrote the original score for Failure To Protect, an award-winning documentary.
He co-wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox, and for Breakfast Ball and The Facility on FS1.
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 has served as Editor-At-Large for Thrive Global’s music section
He delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity, and has guest lectured at UCLA, USC and Belmont.
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, both on Netflix.
Lucas has served as Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia
In 2017, Lucas scored 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.
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AI can now compose pop music and even symphonies. Here's how composers are joining in. - NBC News
Huawei’s A.I. has finished Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, and we’ve heard it - Digital Trends
How AI completed Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony No 8 - Silicon Republic
Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony completed by artificial intelligence - Classic FM
Wu-Tang Clan Embarks on an Impossible Space Mission to Sell White Castle's Planet-Saving Slider - Muse by Clio
Meet Lucas Cantor - Purchase College Jazz Studies News