Rosen, Luke D.
Luke D. Rosen received his BM in Choral Music Education and his MM in Choral Conducting Performance at Bowling Green State University, where he was also a composition student. Vocal teachers have included Mary Alexander (Cincinnati) and Christopher Scholl (BGSU) and conducting teachers have included Mark Munson and Emily Freeman Brown (both at BGSU).
Since 2019, he has served as the Director of Choral Music at Evergreen Local Schools, where he has taught middle school and high school choir, music theory, and a songwriting class. For 15 years before that, he served as Director of Choral and Liturgical Music at St. John’s Jesuit High School.
He was Director of Music Ministry at Corpus Christi University Parish at the University of Toledo for 23 years before moving to the same position at All Saints Catholic Church in Rossford in 2022.
Over the last 20 years, he has music directed and conducted dozens of musicals for local companies, including the Toledo Rep, Waterville Playshop, Cutting Edge, and TBD Productions.
In addition to choral conducting, he is a published composer with multiple companies, including E.C. Schirmer, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Oregon Catholic Press, Liturgical Press, and GIA. Premieres of his compositions have been given by the Tower Brass Quintet, Singing Men of Ohio (Ohio University), BGSU, Toledo School of the Arts, and many other schools and churches. He has scored incidental music for productions at both The Croswell and the Toledo Repertoire Theatre, and has written a full musical, Common Grounds, which was premiered and recorded by Evergreen High School in 2022.