#meetourstudents
Luke Turner, 16, from Birmingham, Alabama, began piano lessons at the age of four. Since 2015, he has been a Myra Jackson Blair Scholar at Vanderbilt’s Blair Academy, where he studies with Dr. Heather Conner. He is a two-time MTNA National Finalist and a two-time first prize winner in the Lois Pickard Concerto Competition, sponsored by the Alabama Symphony. Luke has performed with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the Curb Youth Symphony, and was chosen as a participant in the Cliburn International Junior Piano Festival. He also received Honorable Mention in the 2020 Emory University Young Artist Piano Competition and won third prize in the 2019 Lee University International Piano Competition. He has performed in masterclasses for renowned artists, including Norman Krieger, Marina Lomazov, Peter Frankl and Jack Winerock. In addition to his piano studies, he is principal cellist of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra and soloed with the orchestra in 2019 as winner of their concerto competition.
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