Luke, 17 years old, from Raleigh, North Carolina, began playing violin at the age of three. He studies with Mr. Paul Biss of the New England Conservatory. Luke attends school at Phillips Academy and is concertmaster of the Phillips Academy Symphony and Chamber Orchestras and an active chamber musician. He plays first violin in the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra conducted by Maestro Benjamin Zander. Luke is a member of the Chamber Music Intensive Performance Seminar at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School led by Ms. Merry Peckham. Luke has won numerous regional and national performance, concerto and chamber music competitions including most recently the National Fischoff Competition and has soloed with the New England Philharmonic, the Winston-Salem Symphony and the Georgia Philharmonic. He has performed in master classes with James Ehnes, Joseph Lin, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, William Preucil, Robert McDuffie, Ms. Sally Thomas, the Pacifica, Verona, and Parker quartets.
