Lucas van Woerkum (1982) studied Film directing and editing at the Utrecht School of the Arts, and French horn at Fontys Conservatory Tilburg.
Lucas makes dramafilms based on symphonic music and directs music documentaries. He graduated in 2004 with the film Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, which he made in close collaboration with internationally known filmmaker Frank Scheffer. The film premiered in the Holland Festival and was shown in the Auditorium of the Louvre in Paris. In 2007 he was selected by the Dutch Filmfund to make the fiction film To Anna. This film, to a scenario by Anna Maria Versloot, was shown on television and in cinemas by NPS Kort! The film Lento, based on the composition 365 by Joey Roukens, won awards for Best cinematography and Best music at the 48Hour Filmfestival.
Lucas made music documentaries on composer Willem Jeths, Arvo Pärt, Matangi Quartet, Amsterdam Ensemble, Ties Mellema, Cello Octet Amsterdam and Alphons Diepenbrock. In 2013 he will finish a documentary on composer Michel van der Aa. In June 2010 the film Sophia, based on a composition by Dirk Brossé, was premiered in Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In November 2010 Lucas got commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to make the film Scale, le tombeau de Mahler, on a composition by Willem Jeths. In February 2011 the Symphonic Cinema film The Isle of the Dead, based on Die Toteninsel by Sergei Rachmaninov was performed live with Residentie Orchestra The Hague conducted by Jun Märkl. In June 2012, The Isle of the Dead was shown in a special event in Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam. In 2012 Lucas finished the complete opera recording of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Commissioned by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucas started 3 new Symphonic Cinema films: Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied, Stravinsky’s Firebird and Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloé.