His work reaches from the concert hall toward a broader, quieter form of chamber music reflecting his formative experiences as a theater music director in Colorado and as a wilderness guide in New Mexico. Luke plays piano and guitar with the infamous Grant Wallace Band (“spidery original bluegrass” — New York Times). He has been artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ucross Foundation, Joshua Tree National Park, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and the Banff Centre, where he received a TD Jazz Fellowship and wrote an album of cold-weather Bob Dylan covers. Luke received an MM in music composition from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009.