Luke Flynn (composer)

Luke Flynn

Luke Flynn (* 1988 in Dubuque / Iowa ) is an American composer.

Flynn began playing the trumpet as a child and was the first trumpeter of the youth jazz band Caboose when he was ten . He later founded the rock band VeraSun , with whom he toured the United States. He then studied composition with Amy Dunker at Clarke University and with Tadashi Kubo at Kagoshima University . His mentors included conductors and composers Michael Schelle , Timothy Salzman , Robert Grechesky and Stanley DeRusha .

In addition to chamber and choral music and orchestral works, which have been performed in the USA, Japan and Korea, Flynn composed several music for the theater. His music for Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice was recognized as best original composition at the 2011 American College Theater Festival . His funeral music Beneath the Wave for the victims of the 2011 tsunami won first prize at the San Jose Choral Project Composition Competition . In the same year, Flynn was a finalist in the International Sacred Composers Composition Competition with Sancta Caecilia (based on his own Latin text) .

Works

• Eyes Like Aster for wind orchestra, 2009
• Credo for trumpet and piano, 2009
• Marie for piano, 2009
• Quiet Snow for symphony orchestra, 2010
• Sancta Caecilia for wind orchestra and mixed choir, 2010
• Night Flight of the Specter for string orchestra, 2010
• Dance in the Summer Field for wind quintet, 2010
• Night Flight of the Specter for string quartet, 2010
• Starlight Fanfare , 2010
• Adding Flowers for piano, 2010
• Eurydice , incidental music, 2010
• Naomi is an Ocean in Nigeria , incidental music, 2010
• Lost for solo percussion, 2011
• The Gamecock for wind quintet, 2011
• As the River for cello and bongos, 2011
• The Crusader Roar for wind orchestra and mixed choir, 2011
• Cleveland Park for Trumpet and Piano, 2011
• Tabi for Koto, 2011
• The Great Halls of Apadana for guitar, 2011
• Beneath the Wave for eight-part mixed choir, 2011
• Windowsill Rain for soprano and piano, 2011
• Hashi for electronics, 2011
• Just the Beginning for Electronics, 2011
• The Hoodlums , score, 2011
• Dead Man Walking , incidental music, 2011
• Changing Sides for Electronics, 2012
• Ocean Skies for Electronics, 2012
• Year of the Dragon for piano, 2012
• Free Flight for flute and piano, 2012
• Blue Bird, Fly Away for violin and cello, 2012
• Larghetto for string chamber ensemble, 2012
• Larghetto for string orchestra, 2012
• Pioneer for symphony orchestra, 2013

Web link

• Luke Flynn's homepage

source

• Alliance Publications, Inc. - F - Flynn, Luke ( Memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )