Luke Storm | tuba performance

Luke Storm is a freelance tuba player and new music devotee. Equally at home in the symphony orchestra, brass quintet, eclectic new music ensemble, or as a soloist, Storm believes that music should be a vibrant and living tradition of innovation and creativity.

Recent appearances include performances with the California E.A.R. Unit, Oregon Bach Festival, Long Beach Symphony, the Jacaranda concert series of Santa Monica, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Sunriver Music Festival, Brass Pacifica, inauthentica, the Eugene Symphony, New Millennium Brass Ensemble, Vinny Golia's CalArts Large Ensemble, and the New Century Players.  In March 2008, Storm performed Nick Didkovsky's Slim in Beaten Dreamers at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which the LA Times hailed as "tight and spunky."

In his effort to foster new works for the tuba, Storm has premiered works by composers Nick Didkovsky, Larry Polansky, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Andrew Tholl, Ulrich Krieger, and many more. He is a founding member of Trio Kobayashi, specializing in the emerging field of just intonation music for brass.

His primary teachers include Fritz Kaenzig, Richard Frazier, Michael Grose, Sam Pilafian, and Doug Tornquist.  Storm earned a B.M. in Music Performance with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Oregon and a M.F.A. in Multi-Focus Performance at the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts.