Lukas (Luke) William Poeppel

100 Bleecker Street Apt. 29B New York, NY 10012 [email protected] 718.839.0484 https://www.lukepoeppel.com https://www.youtube.com/user/LPClef https://github.com/Luke-Poeppel

Education

• (Undergraduate, Class of 2022) • Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick Massachusetts (High School, Class of 2018) • , New York, NY (2012-2015) • Trevor Day School, New York, NY (2010-2012) • Deutsche Schule Washington, Potomac, MD (Elementary School)

Summer Programs: • NYU Summer School (Summer, 2019): Calculus 3 (Multivariable) and Independent Study • NYU Visiting Student (Summer, 2018): Calculus 1 with Tristan Léger (grade of A) • Curtis Summerfest (2017): Composition • New England Conservatory Preparatory Program: Germany Piano Tour (2016). • NYU Summer Session for High School Students (2016): Mathematics • ID Tech (MIT, 2015): C++ Class • Walden Young Musicians Program (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)

Research Experience

• Research Intern at NYU for Prof. Sarah Marlowe (Spring, 2019-Present) working on harmonic ambiguity in Bach fugues from a computational perspective. • Research Intern at MIT for Prof. Michael Scott Cuthbert (Summer 2016-Summer 2018). Musicological research and coding for music21 (Python platform for computer- based musicology). Paper: “The Rhythmician”: Exploring Automated Ethnological Rhythmic Analysis of Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps, Sept Haïkaï, and birdsong transcriptions. • NHS Project, Samuel Mehr (coordinator), Harvard University (2015-2017). Natural History of Song Project. Music theoretical analysis of folk songs across cultures.

Awards

• Category A (25 and under) winner for the 9th Annual Composers Concordance competition (for String Trio). • MTNA (Music Teacher’s National Association) 2017 Composition Competition; Senior Division, First Prize Winner for Massachusetts. Honorable Mention for the East Coast. • YoungArts Merit Award for Composition (2018) • Seth Kimmelman Scholarship Award from New England Conservatory (2017) • Bigelow Academic Honors Award (2015, 2016, 2017)

Selected Compositions Written and/or Performed

• The bards must drink and junket! (2018). Cello and Piano. Premiered at the Delbridge Center for the Arts in the Spring of 2018 • Inspecteur Stavro (2017). Vocal soloists, women’s chorus, chamber orchestra. Operetta to be performed at the Delbridge Center for the Arts in the Spring of 2018. • Lux Aeterna et Sanctus (2017). Piano trio and clarinet. Premiered in the Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute. • The Realm of You (2017); SATB Choir. Premiered in Boswell Recital Hall. • Confero (2017) Clarinet soloist, piano, string sextet, percussion, electronics, women’s voices. Premiered in the Delbridge Center for the Arts, Boston MA. • J’aime le Souvenir (2017). Piano, soprano solo. Premiered at Walnut Hill School for the Arts. • String Trio (2016). Premiered at Walnut Hill School for the Arts. • I live with him (2016). Piano, string trio, soprano solo, women’s chorus. Premiered at Walnut Hill. • Le Serpent Qui Danse (2016). Piano, baritone solo. Premiered at Walnut Hill. • Characters (2016). Cello and piano. premiered at Walnut Hill. • Atmosphaera (2015); violin, cello, two clarinets. Premiered at Walnut Hill. • Étude (2014). Piano and tenor saxophone. Premiered at the Firehouse Space. • interstices (2014). Trumpet (doubling piccolo trumpet), soprano saxophone, live electronics. Premiered at The Walden School. • The Pit and the Pendulum (2013). Bass clarinet, viola, percussion, men’s chorus. Premiered at The Walden School. • Drei Kleine Klavierstücke (2013). Piano solo. Premiered by Eric Huebner (New York Philharmonic Pianist) at the Walden School.

Piano Performances

• Boswell Recital Hall, Boston, MA (2017, 2016, 2015) • Delbridge Center for the Arts, Boston MA (2017) • Liszt Haus, Weimar, Germany (2016) • Schumann Haus, Leipzig, Germany (2016) • Mendelsohn Haus, Leipzig, Germany (2016) • Jordan Hall, Boston, MA (2016) • The DiMenna Center, New York, NY (2015) • Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC (2015) • Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY (2015) • Greenwich House of Music, New York, NY (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012) • The Players Theater, New York, NY (2015) • Queens Museum, New York, NY (2015) • Mannes School of Music (at ), New York, NY (2014) • The Dublin School, Dublin, NH (2013, 2012, 2011) Relevant Skills

Languages: English (native), German (near native), French (proficient).

Computer: • Programming Languages: Python (music21), C, HTML, Supercollider, Latex • Sibelius • Audacity • Reaper • Maya (Autodesk) • Eagle CAD software

Electronics: • Synthesizer Design • Digital Circuitry (Logic Gates, Schmitt Triggers, etc.) • Atmega Microcontroller Programming

Composition, Music History, and Theory Courses

Grade 8 (Special Music School): - Theory: A.P. Music Theory (Score of 5) - Composition: Composition Seminar - Piano: Joseph Ries at the Greenwich House of Music - Chorus

Grade 9 (Special Music School High School): - Theory: Advanced Structural Analysis (Schenkerian) - Composition: Lessons with Sam Pluta ( School of Music and ), Composition Seminar - Chamber Music: Arrangement of Jupiter (from The Planets, Holst) - Piano: Lessons with Joseph Ries - Chorus

Grade 10 (Walnut Hill): - Theory: Theory 2 (Advanced Counterpoint) - Composition: Composition Seminar, Lessons with Dr. Whitman Brown - Piano: Lessons with Dr. Marc Ryser, New England Conservatory - Solfege 4 - Chorus: Vivaldi, Gloria

Grade 11 (W.H.): - Theory: Independent Study (theoretical writing on music) as I placed out of the remaining theory courses at Walnut Hill - Composition: Composition Seminar, Lessons with Dr. Whitman Brown - Piano: Lessons with Dr. Marc Ryser - Chamber Music: Vaughan Williams, Piano Quintet in C minor - Solfege 5 (top class) - Chorus: Faure, Requiem

Grade 12 (W.H.) - Theory: Work in computational musicology at MIT, focusing on the early music of Olivier Messiaen (paper included in portfolio) - Composition: Composition Seminar, Lessons with Dr. Whitman Brown - Music History with Dr. Margarita Restrepo - Piano: Lessons with Dr. Marc Ryser, Grade 10-12: Advanced Piano Seminar at NEC Prep. - Chamber Music: Unknown (spring semester) - Chorus: Bernstein, Selections from Candide

Piano Repertoire Bach: - Inventions: D minor (BWV 775) - Sinfonias: E Major (BWV 792), F Major (BWV 794), A minor (BWV 799) - Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: (Book 1): Prelude and Fugue in C Major (BWV 846), C minor (BWV 847), G minor (BWV 861) (Book 2): Prelude and Fugue in E flat Major (BWV 876), Prelude and Fugue in G minor (BWV 885) - English Suite in A minor (BWV 807)

Beethoven: - Piano Sonatas: F minor (op. 2/no. 1), G Major (op. 31/no. 1), A flat Major (op. 31/no. 3) - Bagatelle in G minor (op. 119/no. 1)

Chopin: - Etudes: (op. 10) no. 1 in C Major, no. 3 in E Major, (op. 25) no. 1 in A-flat Major - Ballade in G minor

Debussy: - Préludes (Book 1): Le vent dans la plaine - L’isle joyeuse

Ligeti: - Musica ricercata

Liszt: - Liebesträum in A flat Major, S. 541 - Dante Sonata, S. 161 - Second Petrarch Sonnet, S. 161

Messiaen: - Préludes (1928-1929): Columbine, Chant d’extase dans une paysage triste, Cloches d’angoisse et larmes d’adieu, Un reflet dans le vent

Mozart: - Sonata in F Major, K. 332

Poulenc: - Intermezzi, FP. 71.1 (A flat Major, C Major)

Prokofiev: - Vision Fugitives, op. 22 Rachmaninoff: - Elegy, op. 3/no. 1 - Polichinelle, op. 3/no. 4 - 6 Morceaux, op. 11, no.1 (four-hands) - Prelude in G minor (op. 23, no.5)

Schönberg: - Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19 - Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11

Schubert: - Impromptu in A flat Major, D. 935

Schulhoff: - Jazz Etudes (Charleston)

Schumann: - Kinderszenen (complete), op. 15 - Faschingsschwank aus Wien, op. 26 (movement 1)

Other Piano Repertoire:

- Adams: China Gates, Scratchband (Synth 1) - Chopin: Three Etudes (posthumous) - Gershwin: Songbook Selections (Swanee, I’ve got rhythm, Oh, Lady be Good!, etc.) - Glass: Etude no. 6 - Michael Gordon: Trance (Synth 1) - Jalbert: Piano Trio (mvmt. 1) - Moszowski: 12 Virtuosic Etudes; no. 1, no. 2, no. 5, no. 6, no. 9 - Tcherepnin: 10 Bagatelles, op. 5 - Vaughan-Williams: Piano Quintet in C minor (1903) - Wagner-Liszt: Liebestod