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 Master’s student of Brad Lubman, serving as the assistant conductor of Musica Nova at the Eastman School of Music. With this ensemble, he has led works by composers including Knussen, Abrahamsen, Davies, Webern, Manoury; 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. Luke has served as a cover/assistant conductor for the Orchestra of the League of Composers (he will make his conducting debut this season), Ensemble Signal (TIME:SPANS Festival), and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
In the Summer of 2023, Poeppel was the conducting fellow of the soundSCAPE festival (at the Hindemith Center in Switzerland) and the Mostly Modern Festival, as well as the music director of Rochester Summer Opera. At Mostly Modern, he served as cover conductor for William Langley on Robert Paterson’s opera In Real Life I/II & Extraordinary. Poeppel also serves as an assistant conductor for the Eastman Opera Theater (EOT). In the 2022-2023 season, he assisted Timothy Long for the production of Anthony Davis’ Lear on the 2nd Floor and Wilson Southerland for Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas. In the 2023-2024 season, he will be the assistant conductor for EOT’s productions of To Hell and Back (Heggie), We’ve Got Our Eye on You (Okoye), Dido (Purcell/Britten), Ariadne auf Naxos Prologue (Strauss), and Dialogue of the Carmelites (Poulenc). In March 2024, he will conduct Menotti’s The Telephone, directed by Octavio Cardenas.
Poeppel graduated with departmental honors (for his song-cycle, 3 Songs for Molly) from New York University in 2022. Luke was the winner of the 2021 Gustave Ries Memorial Prize in Music from NYU, the Seth Kimmelman award from New England Conservatory, the senior winner of Massachusetts in the 2018 Music Teachers National Association Competition, and the Category-A winner of the Composer’s Concordance 2019 competition. He has collaborated with the JACK Quartet, the Kronos Quartet, Contemporaneous, the Bergamot Quartet, and Yarn Wire. Outside of performance, Poeppel has 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. This research was presented at the 2021 Society for Music Theory Conference.
Contact
luke.poeppel@gmail.com
