Current Director

Luca Antonucci

Current Music Director (2022 - Present)

Luca Antonucci is a second-year doctoral student in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance studying with Kenneth Kiesler. A native of Watertown, MA, Luca holds an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from the Hartt School, where he studied with Edward Cumming and Glen Adsit.

Luca earned his B.A. from Amherst College, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with an honors conducting recital dedicated to choral and instrumental works by Aaron Copland. After graduation, Luca spent the 2014-15 academic year as a Fulbright fellow in Vienna, Austria, where he published musicological work in the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center and performed with the award-winning community brass band “Musikverein Leopoldau.”

A multifaceted musician, Luca has worked as a choral and orchestral conductor in the Hartford and Boston areas as well as freelance trumpet player, private teacher, singer, church music director, and educator. Most recently, he was the Middle and Upper School Instrumental Music Teacher and Director of After-School Music at the Brimmer and May School in Chestnut Hill, MA. He was also the conductor of the Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra, leading both groups successfully through the first two years of the COVID pandemic. He is the founder of Orchestra Without Borders Boston and the Brookline Chamber Singers, which present programs each summer featuring underrepresented composers while raising money to fight hunger in Massachusetts. 

In his free time, Luca enjoys cooking, dabbling in jazz piano, and listening to opera. At Michigan, he conducts the Campus Philharmonia Orchestra and is one of the assistant conductors for the University Symphony.

Past Directors