About

Lucas Brum holding his guitar case in a stairwell

Photo: Antonia Jenner

Lucas Brum is a Brazilian composer, arranger, conductor and guitarist based in Hamburg, working across jazz, Brazilian music and the concert stage.

As a guitarist and bandleader, Brum performs with Cansu Arat & Lucas Brum and leads the Lucas Brum Big Band, which he founded in Porto Alegre in 2021. He has performed and recorded with the NDR Bigband and the hr-Bigband, and has worked as conductor and arranger with the HfMT Big Band in Hamburg on several occasions.

In 2026, Brum was a Focus Artist at the JazzHall SummerFestival in Hamburg, presented across two concerts: "Introducing Lucas Brum: Cansu Arat & Lucas Brum – Bobo de Amor," and "Focus on Lucas Brum: HfMT Bigband feat. Sophia Oster Quartett," featuring his big band arrangements of Sophia Oster's compositions.

As a composer and arranger, Brum writes for a wide range of ensembles, including big bands, orchestra, string quartet, and other chamber settings. His piece for piano and orchestra, "Synesthetic Landscape," won the III Concurso de Composição Erudita Gramado in Concert in 2018, receiving its premiere by the festival orchestra that year.

He also works as a music engraver, preparing scores and parts for ensembles including the NDR Bigband, WDR Bigband, hr-Bigband, Symphoniker Hamburg, Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester, Augsburger Philharmoniker, Neue Philharmonie Hamburg, the Aeolus Competition for Wind Instruments and German Brass, alongside private clients Wolf Kerschek and Jörg Achim Keller. His engraving appears in "The Brazilian Groove Book: Samba & Bossa Nova" by Kiko Freitas (Hudson Music), and in titles for Editora Tipografia Musical and Musimed Edições Musicais.

He holds a degree in Popular Music from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and a Master's in Guitar Performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (HfMT), where he is currently pursuing further studies in Jazz Composition.

Brum keeps a busy performing schedule across Germany and Brazil with his various projects, continuing into 2027 with a performance alongside the NDR Bigband, featuring Cansu Arat, at NDR Studio 1, Hamburg, on January 15.