Ming Luke

Conductor, educator and arts administrator Ming Luke has been recognized nationally for his work in education and founded the Academy programs with Festival Napa Valley. As a versatile conductor that has excited audiences around the world, Luke has been described as having the “energy, creativity and charisma not seen since Leonard Bernstein” and his conducting has been described as “vibrant,” “mind-blowing,” and “spectacular.” Highlights include conducting the Bolshoi Orchestra in Moscow, performances of Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella at the Kennedy Center, his English debut at Sadler’s Wells with Birmingham Royal, conducting Dvorak’s Requiem in Dvorak Hall in Prague, recording scores for a Coppola film, and over a hundred performances at the San Francisco War Memorial with San Francisco Ballet. Long time critic Allan Ulrich of the San Francisco Chronicle said, “Ming Luke delivered the best live theater performance I’ve ever heard of [Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet]” and in 2016 Luke’s War Requiem was named best choral performance of 2016 in the San Francisco Bay Area.