Ming Luke is an American conductor who is the Principal Guest Conductor of the San Francisco Ballet,^[1] Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Nashville Ballet,^[2] founder and Program Director of Festival Napa Valley's Blackburn Music Academy,^[3] Music Director of the Merced Symphony,^[4] Music Director of the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra,^[5] and Education Director and Conductor of the Berkeley Symphony.^[6]

Luke graduated from Westminster Choir College in 2000 with a double major in music education and piano pedagogy^[7] and later attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he attained an MFA in conducting.

His performance of Britten's War Requiem was voted top choral performance in the San Francisco Bay area in 2016^[8] by the San Francisco Classical Voice, and The San Francisco Chronicle stated that his performance of San Francisco Ballet's Romeo and Juliet in 2015 was the "best live theater performance"^[9] of the work. Highlights of his career include conducting the Bolshoi Orchestra in Moscow, performances of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet at the Kennedy Center,^[10] conducting at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris,^[11] and conducting Dvorak’s Requiem in Dvorak Hall in Prague. Ming Luke was named one of Diablo Magazine's 40 Under 40 in the East Bay^[12] Luke has been profiled and his work featured in Nashville Public Radio,^[13] The Tennessean^[14] San Francisco Classical Voice,^[15] and the Napa Valley Register.^[16]

He has guested with various ballet companies including Boston Ballet, conducting The Nutcracker in December 2016,^[17] and again in May 2018, leading performances of Sleeping Beauty.^[18]

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