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Rehearsal Accompanist
Luke Housner has maintained a balanced schedule between opera and choral experience with a combination of vocal coaching, extensive performing, opera assembling, choral preparation, and musical direction.
Recently, in the summer of 2006, Mr. Housner was a guest vocal coach and assistant conductor at the Central City Opera Festival in Central City, Colorado. He coached, concertized, and played harpsichord for Mozart's Don Giovanni. In March, Mr. Housner musically directed, vocally coached, and piano performed Wagner's Das Rheingold at the Academy of Vocal Arts as part of their 2005-2006 season. That same month, Mr. Housner was a guest vocal coach at Hong Kong’s Academy of Performing Arts. In January, Mr. Housner was a guest vocal coach at Portland Opera for their Young Artist Studio and concertized on the Oregon coast. He returned to Portland for two months of residency in the spring of 2006 for a Young Artist Studio recital, as well as serving as a coach, continuo player and chorus master for a mainstage production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.
In the summer of 2005, Mr. Housner was principal vocal coach for a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Utah Opera Festival in Logan. In February of that year, Mr. Housner served as Assistant Musical Director for Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at AVA, and in January, he musically prepared Wagner’s Parsifal, Act III, for The Philadelphia Orchestra’s and Christoph Eschenbach’s coachings with Matthias Hölle, Andreas Schmidt and John Keyes. In March, 2004 Mr. Housner musically prepared, musically directed and performed from the piano a conductor-less, fully staged production of Strauss’s Elektra as part of the 2003-2004 AVA opera season. In 2003, Mr. Housner visited UC Davis for two recitals and a master class.
Over the past ten years with The Philadelphia Singers, the Resident Chorus of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Mr. Housner has performed on various subscription series concerts as pianist, organist, and harpsichordist, served as rehearsal pianist and vocal coach for soloists, and has played under the batons of Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis, and Kurt Masur. Mr. Housner joined the Academy of Vocal Arts music faculty and The Curtis Institute of Music Opera Department in 1996.
A native of Western Massachusetts, Mr. Housner earned a Master’s Degree of Music in Vocal Accompanying and Coaching from University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana with instruction from internationally acclaimed vocal coach John Wustman. Previously, he received a Bachelor’s Degree of Music, with a double major in Piano Performance and Vocal Accompanying from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
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