Luke Camarillo
Adjunct Faculty
Luke Camarillo
Adjunct Faculty
Bio
Luke Camarillo is the Director of Concert Bands at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he conducts two concert bands and teaches courses in the music curriculum. Since his arrival in 2022, the RIT band program has doubled in size and is an active commissioner of new works for wind band by a wide array of composers including Kim Archer, Li Chan, Kevin Day, Ingrid Stolzel, and Augusta Read Thomas. Previously, he conducted the wind ensemble at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, taught conducting courses at the Eastman School of Music, and served as assistant conductor of the legendary Eastman Wind Ensemble.
He has conducted a variety of ensembles at all levels throughout the United States and abroad, including the New Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and the OSSIA New Music Ensemble at the national conference of the College Music Society.
Camarillo recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting at the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Mark Davis Scatterday. While there, he was the Donald & Polly Hunsberger Fellow, Fennell Conducting Fellow, and received awards for conducting (2023 Walter Hagen Prize), scholarship (2023 Lecture-Recital Prize), and teaching (2024 Graduate Teaching Prize). He earned a Master of Music in conducting (with honors) from the New England Conservatory as a student of Charles Peltz, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree (summa cum laude) at Baylor University. He was selected as a Conducting Fellow at the Eastern Music Festival and the Juilliard Conducting Intensive. Other significant study includes Brad Lubman, William Drury, Erica Washburn, Eric Wilson, and Stephen Heyde.
His recent recording of Shuying Li’s Slippery Slope with the Eastman Wind Orchestra is pending commercial release on the RMN Classical label.