American conductor Lance Friedel attended Boston University, the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and the University of Music in Vienna, completing his work at Mannes School of Music in New York. Among Friedel's conducting teachers were Gustav Meier, Michael Charry, and Georg Tintner; he also took part in master classes given by Leonard Slatkin, André Previn, and Lorin Maazel, and participated in the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. In 2001, he won first prize at the Mario Gusella International Conductors Competition in Pescara, Italy. Friedel has conducted many orchestras, including the Providence Chamber Orchestra, the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Berlin Sinfonietta, and the London Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He has recorded for Naxos and MSR Classics, producing notable recordings of orchestral music by Carl Nielsen and Josef Bohuslav Foerster.