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Luke Poeppel is an American-German conductor and pianist based in New York City. Starting in the 2024/25 season, he is the David T. Beals III Assistant Conductor to the Kansas City Symphony for Matthias Pintscher’s first season as music director. His duties with KC Symphony include leading a series of KinderKonzerts, a performance featuring Cody Fry, covering a variety of conductors, and more. Luke has served as a cover conductor for orchestras and ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, Ensemble Signal, and Contemporaneous. This season, Luke served as the associate conductor for Cerrone & Fleischmann’s In A Grove at the 2025 Prototype Festival, conducting the full run of performances. This production received critical acclaim from the New York Times (“the highlight of the festival”), the Observer, the Financial Times, and more. This summer, he will conduct In A Grove at Opera Saratoga. Luke will also work as a guest conductor for the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Washington Square New Music Ensemble this season. Luke was selected for Ensemble Modern’s 2023-2024 ICCS program, which culminated in a performance at the cresc… festival in Frankfurt, Germany. As a collaborative pianist passionate about opera, he has played for ensembles including Contemporaneous, American Opera Projects, and the Metropolis Ensemble. He is a 2024 graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he received his MM in Conducting under the tutelage of Brad Lubman and Timothy Long.