Lance Inouye, associate conductor of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, also currently holds the position of Conducting Assistant with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in the United States.

His guest conducting engagements in Russia include the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra "Klassika", the St. Petersburg Congress Orchestra, the Karelia Philharmonic (Petrozavodsk), and the Sochi Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with soloists of the Mariinsky Theater-Kirov Opera as well as soloists of the St. Petersburg and Moscow State Conservatories. In the U.S., Lance has been guest conductor with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, the Brevard Repertory Orchestra in North Carolina, Music Director of the World Journal Youth Orchestra (New York), Assistant Conductor of the Queens College Orchestra (New York), conductor of the Chamber Orchestra at the Aaron Copland School of Music, and Assistant Conductor of the College-Conservatory of Music Philharmonia and Concert Orchestras in Cincinnati. Active in contemporary music, Mr. Inouye has conducted a number of world premieres in New York's Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall, the Colden Center and Le Frak Concert Hall.

Lance Inouye is currently completing his Doctorate of Musical Arts studies in orchestral conducting at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati and received a post-graduate certificate in Russia from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory Rimsky-Korsakov. In addition, he holds a Masters degree in orchestral conducting from Queens College of the City University of New York and a B.M. from Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz piano and composition. His principal conducting teachers have been Mark Gibson, Maurice Peress, and Leonid Korchmar.