Coming up

April 19 @ 4:00 pm - Luke sings with Milwaukee Chamber Choir. The program features Whitacre's Five Hebrew Love Songs and Finzi's Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs (with poetry by Robert Bridges), as well as some Gibbons, Vaughan Williams, and of course a morsel of Meredith Wilson. Luke will be soloing in Vaughan Williams's "Serenade to Music." Performance is at Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church; get tickets here.

In the last year

March 2026 - Luke performed an Educational Performance for the littles at WCM's downtown location. It was a blast!

March 2026 - Luke performed a recital at Saint John's on the Lake through the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, collaborating with Kai-I Tien. Repertoire included everything from jazz to hymns to art song!

Feb 2026 - Luke facilitated a musical theatre workshop at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School through Concordia University Wisconsin's Theatre department. He and CUW students focused on song analysis and expressive techniques. It was a blast!

Feb 2026 - Luke performed on a Faculty Recital with the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music at their downtown MKE location. He performed "Five Songs for Young Baritone," specially written classical pieces for young men with developing changed voices.

Feb 2026 - Jules and Dewey from Quantum Music: Dissecting the Modern Musician welcome Luke to their show to talk about composition, life as a recently-graduated musician, and bank heists. Catch the episode here: https://on.soundcloud.com/UtH96vIuaG7y0XYHuK. 

Feb 2026 -Luke performs with awesome opera people at Amorphic Beer. In addition to making an improvised appearance as Frederic from Pirates of Penzance, he performed a set featuring five original art songs written to highlight the vocal strengths of young baritones. It's high time middle and high school guys had some classical rep that feels good to sing!

Jan. 2026 - Luke facilitates a vocal techniques workshop at Living Word Lutheran High School in Jackson, WI. He and the students explored laryngeal anatomy and physiology, related it to different experienced vocal functions, and analyzed the use of those functions across genres.

Jan. 2026 - Luke attends the WMEA/WCDA Winterlude micro-conference, where he learns about elementary music education and Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance with Miriam Altman. 

Dec. 2025 - Luke performs as 1940's Bing and son Harry Crosby in Bing Crosby - Christmas on the Air with Greendale Community Theatre. This staged radio/TV special featured nostalgic Christmas tunes from Bing's iconic holiday catalog. Luke's favorite songs to perform are "The Christmas Song" and "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy."

Sept. 2025 - The children's choir at Luther Memorial Chapel in Shorewood, WI and the Harwood Chorus at Harwood Place in Wauwatosa, WI begin their second year under Luke's direction.

June/July 2025 - Luke attends the Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Online Course, taking observed individual lessons with Ian Howell, Chadley Ballantyne, and Ken Bozeman. The experience deepened his fascination with acoustics, revolutionized his teaching, and sparked a keen interest in functional vocal training. He also manages to convert Ian Howell's Hearing Singing into beach reading.

June 2025 - Luke music directs Moana, Jr., CUW Theatre's inaugural youth summer Theatre camp. The three-week experience taught him the joy of youth MT, the importance of relying on a team, and many songs he now wants to forget.

And some highlights from earlier

Mar 2025 - Luke prepares and coordinates three touring performances of The Final Week in Jerusalem with CUW Theatre, performing as a swing. Written by Lori Woodall and Ryan Schauffler, this moving staged radio drama harmonizes the Gospel reports of the events surrounding Jesus' death and resurrection.

Feb 2025 - Luke understudies the Moon in Milwaukee Opera Theatre's Rusalka. Pure opera fun with magical opera people.

Dec 2024 - Luke carols with Wisconsin Dickens Carolers.

Nov 2024 - Luke sings in his first concert with Milwaukee Chamber Choir, soloing briefly in Britten's "Hymn to St. Cecilia."

Sept 2024 - Luke is hired in an additional role at CUW as Theatre Recruiter. (Thanks again, Steve.)

Sept 2024 - Luke begins work at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music as a teaching artist in their community partnerships program and as a private voice instructor.

Sept 2024 - Luke begins directing the inaugural children's choir of Luther Memorial Chapel in Shorewood, WI.

Fall 2024 - Organ lessons!

June 2024 - Luke attends the triannual LCMS Worship Institute as a Youth Choir Camp Counsellor, representing his alma mater. He performed an original art song "When Mother Reads Aloud" in recital and relished the community around making beautiful sacred music with his church community.

May 2024 - Luke graduates college with a BA in Music and nearly loses his mind scrounging for a job. He thankfully is hired as the Environmental Health and Safety Officer at Concordia University WI. (Thanks Steve.)

Feb. 2024 - Luke has the time of his life performing as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain and garners a KCACTF Irene Ryan nomination. Just aren't quite words to describe how marvelously perfect the experience and people were. He also achieved a lifetime goal of tapping on stage.

June/July 2023 - Luke serves as Voice Fellow (pedagogy focus) at Lutheran Summer Music, where he took voice and pedagogy lessons with Daniel Greco, maintained a private voice studio, performed in several recitals, assisted with and led Liz Gray's class voice course, and met so many fascinating musicians.