October 3, 2024 On Saturday, October 5, 2024 Luke Welch will be featured as the host of CBC Radio: ‘This is My Music’ at 10:00am EST (7:00 PDT/16:00 CET). Each week, This Is My Music is hosted by one of…
October 2, 2024 On Saturday, October 5, 2024, Luke Welch will present a special prerelease concert at the Canadian Music Centre in downtown Toronto, Canada featuring repertoire from his highly anticipated new album of Robert Nathaniel Dett solo piano works….
September 29, 2024 Announced this week, York University has appointed Luke Welch to its Faculty of Music. Welch, highly sought after as a pedagogue and adjudicator in addition to his performance career, joins one of Canada’s leading music faculties in…
September 13, 2024 With excitement and anticipation for the release of Luke Welch’s fifth album, which releases on October 11, 2024, Welch’s new single ‘Juba: Dance’ from R. Nathaniel Dett’s In the Bottoms suite is now available. Click the link…
September 5, 2024 In preview of Luke Welch’s highly anticipated new album, a new single will be released on Friday, September 13, 2024 and will be available internationally through Spotify, Apple Music, and all other major streaming platforms. This single…
August 16, 2024 On Saturday, October 5, 2024, Luke Welch will commemorate the release of his highly anticipated new album with a special pre-launch presentation at the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto, Canada. Located in the heart of the city,…
August 7, 2024 After the successful release of his critically acclaimed Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Works album in 2023, Luke Welch’s highly anticipated new album continues to progress, with a special announcement regarding its impending release date. This solo piano recording…
June 23, 2024 On Tuesday, July 23, 2024, the Toronto Concert Orchestra and Luke Welch will collaborate on a highly-anticipated rare performance of Florence Price’s D minor Piano Concerto in One Movement. Born in 1887, Price composed this concerto in…
June 19, 2024 Following the release of his critically acclaimed Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Works album (2023), Luke Welch embarked on a highly-anticipated return to the studio earlier this year. Though few details were previously available in relation to this new…
June 8, 2024 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Three-Fours Valse Suite Op. 71, No. 1 performed by Luke Welch. Recorded live in recital at the Music Room (Scotia Festival of Music: Chamber Players Series) in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 17, 2024. Please…
Harry Jerome Arts Award Recipient: 2018
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Luke Welch
BIO
Award-winning Canadian pianist Luke Welch was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and grew up nearby in Mississauga. He played his first public performance at age seven, and his early private piano teachers include Catherine Kuzeljevich and John-Paul Bracey. He later…