[3] The 1976 premier of his Sinfonie N° 1 afforded him his initial experience in the symphonic genre, both as composer and conductor at the Newport Music Festival.
[7] His international engagements began during these years with concert and opera performance at major musical centers in Europe, South America and Japan.
For the first South American performances of the three-act version of Alban Berg's Lulu, Lano worked to inaugurate the 1993 season at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
[11] In 2002, he conducted a concert-performance with the Montréal Symphony of Alban Berg's Wozzeck which was cited as "Best Concert of the Season" by the Conseil québécois de la musique.
In recent years, his career has been centered primarily in Europe and South America with regular engagements at the Semper Oper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera and Lithuanian National Philharmonic, where he conducted the first performance of his Sinfonie N° 3 in 2004.