Luke Camarillo

Adjunct Faculty

Director of Concert Band

alcspa@rit.edu

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Luke Camarillo

Adjunct Faculty

Director of Concert Band

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.

alcspa@rit.edu

Currently Teaching

PRFL-160

Introduction to Music

3 Credits

An introduction to music as a fine art. Students develop skills in listening, evaluation and analysis through an examination of music's forms, constituent elements, and its cultural, stylistic and historical development.

PRFL-282

RIT Concert Band

1 Credits

The RIT Concert Band is an experiential-learning course in which students learn music theory and historical context by learning several works from the Concert Band literature including standard wind band literature, contemporary compositions, marches, and orchestral transcriptions. The ensemble prepares to perform three major concerts a year and participates in departmental performances. Participation in learning and performing such music gives students an experiential appreciation and understanding of the role of music in modern society. Auditions will be held to assess proper placement. Contact instructor for more information.