Luke is a Brisbane-based music director, dramaturg, composer, arranger and accompanist. With a particular love of developing new work, he has contributed to cabarets, concerts, musical theatre and opera, across Australia and internationally.
Credits as music director include the Hogwarts™ Frog Choir and Universal Monsters Live Rock & Roll Show® for Universal Studios Japan; Do We Need Another Hero and Lady Sings The Maroons for Opera Queensland; Tick, Tick… Boom! for THAT Production Company; and national tours of The Owl & The Pussycat, Lesbian Love Stories, #FirstWorldWhiteGirls, and Babushka’s Happily Ever After (for which he won a Matilda Award); as well as developmental productions for QPAC, Metro Arts, Dead Puppets Society, and many others.
Luke’s arrangements have been performed at Brisbane Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Sydney WorldPride, State Opera South Australia, New York’s Green Room 42, and on P&O, Princess, and Carnival cruise lines. He is the composer of There Once Was A Puffin (an online mini-opera for children commissioned during 2020’s lockdown period), and regularly writes and arranges for Opera Queensland’s Learning, Regional & Community program.
Luke has played keyboards on various touring musicals, performs regularly with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and has accompanied such celebrated artists as Caroline O’Connor, Lea Salonga, Faith Prince, Rhonda Burchmore, and Philip Quast.
Lucy continue to musically direct and is a highly sought after accompanist for artists in cabaret and now balances this out with teaching music and a desire to train the next generation of musicians to reach their potential in their chosen musical field.