Luke Haaksma is a composer, filmmaker, and hammered dulcimerist currently based in New Haven, CT and originally from Asheville, NC. His work often focuses on non-human states of consciousness, finding influences in themes of anthropomorphization, murder ballads, and folk-horror. Luke has had the opportunity to work with ensembles such as No Exit, Eighth Blackbird, Yale Percussion Group, Dogs of Desire (Albany Symphony), The Orchestra Now, Yale Philharmonia, among others. He has received recognition such as the BMI Young Composer award, the ASCAP Morton Gould award, and the Charles Ives scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Luke previously studied composition at Bard College and Conservatory with Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, and is now completing graduate study at Yale School of Music. Recent premieres include breathing room, a stop-motion short with live music/sound, and to end this family line, an overture for an evening length puppet show.
