Luke Poeppel

The American-German conductor and pianist from New York City spent the past two seasons as Assistant Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony. In 2026/27, as a first-year conductor in the Ryan Opera Center Ensemble, he will serve as cover conductor for Haydn’s The Creation. At the 2025 Prototype Festival Poeppel was the Associate Conductor for Cerrone and Fleischmann’s In a Grove, an opera he conducted previously at Opera Saratoga. He served as the Assistant Conductor for Tosca and Sunday in the Park with George at the Glimmerglass Festival last summer and returns in 2026 for Fellow Travelers and Madama Butterfly. Other recent highlights include his debut with the Grossman Ensemble and assisting for Andrea Chénier at OperaDelaware. Poeppel has served as a cover conductor for orchestras and ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and Juilliard Opera. He is a 2025 winner of a Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award.

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