My CV: CV (Last Updated January 23, 2023)
2022-2024 (M.M.) @ Eastman School of Music –– Conducting
2018-2022 (B.A.) @ NYU –– Classical Composition/Conducting and Mathematics
2020-2021 @ Max Planck Institute For Empirical Aesthetics –– Computational Auditory Perception Group (PI: Dr. Nori Jacoby)
Conducting Work: Here (Last Updated January 23, 2023)
Biography
Luke Poeppel is an American-German conductor based in Rochester, New York. He is a recent Master’s graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he studied conducting with Brad Lubman. As assistant conductor of the Musica Nova Ensemble, he has led works by Knussen, Abrahamsen, Davies, Webern, Lindberg, Manoury, and more; he also conducted the U.S. premiere of Hannah Kendall’s shouting forever into the receiver (2022). Poeppel was one of two conductors selected for Ensemble Modern’s 2023-2024 ICCS young_professionals program, culminating in a 2024 performance in Frankfurt at the cresc… festival. This coming summer, he will conduct the Orchestra of the League of Composers and the Exceptet Ensemble on their Northeast tour. Last summer, he served as conducting fellow of both the soundSCAPE festival and the Mostly Modern Festival (MMF), as well as music director of Rochester Summer Opera. Poeppel has served as a cover/assistant conductor for Ensemble Signal, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (DeGaetano Composition Institute), the Orchestra of the League of Composers, and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra.
As a collaborative pianist, Luke has played for Ensemble Contemporaneous, the Mostly Modern Festival, OSSIA New Music Ensemble, and Eastman Opera Theater. Passionate about opera, he has served as an assistant conductor and/or pianist for Robert Paterson’s In Real Life I/II & Extraordinary (MMF), Alex Weiser’s The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language (American Opera Projects), and numerous productions at Eastman Opera Theater (Lear on the 2nd Floor, Florencia en el Amazonas, We’ve Got Our Eye on You, Dido and Aeneas, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Telephone, and Dialogue of the Carmelites). Poeppel received a B.A. with departmental honors (for his song-cycle, 3 Songs for Molly) from New York University in 2022. Outside of performance, Poeppel worked as a research assistant for Dr. Nori Jacoby at the Frankfurt-based Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics between 2020 and 2022 in the Computational Auditory Perception group. During this time, he completed a study on computational techniques for rhythmic search and annotation in the context of Olivier Messiaen’s transcriptions of birdsong.
(Last updated May 9, 2024)
Contact
luke.poeppel@gmail.com
