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Rehearsal Accompanist
Mr. Luke Housner has maintained a balanced schedule with a combination of vocal coaching, extensive performing, opera assembling, choral preparation and musical direction.
Recent engagements for Mr. Housner include:
In the summer of 2008, Mr Housner was principal coach and performance pianist for Astoria Music Festival in Oregon and then went on to coach and musically direct a production of Cosi fan tutte for the Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar in Weimar, Germany. In February 2008, Mr. Housner served as music director, principal coach and performance pianist for a conductor-less, fully staged production of Janácek's Kát’a Kabanová as part of the Academy of Vocal Arts 2007-2008 season.
In previous seasons at AVA, he has done the same with Barber’s Vanessa, Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Strauss’ Elektra.
For the summer of 2006, Mr. Housner was a guest vocal coach at the Central City Opera Festival in Central City, Colorado. He coached, concertized and played harpsichord for Mozart's Don Giovanni.
In January 2006, 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 March 2006, Mr Housner was a guest vocal coach at Hong Kong's Academy of Performing Arts.
Mr. Housner was principal vocal coach for a production of Puccini’s Turandot in the summer of 2005 at the Utah Opera Festival in Logan. In February, 2005, Mr. Housner served as Assistant Musical Director for Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at AVA
Over the past eleven years with the Philadelphia Singers, Resident Chorale 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 Christoph Eshenbach, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit and Kurt Masur. Mr. Housner joined the Academy of Vocal Arts music faculty and the Curtis Institute of Music opera department in 1996.
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 Degreeof Music, with a double major in Piano Performance and Vocal Accompanying from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
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