Luke Howard
Combining elements of chamber music and ambient electronica into his tranquil creations, Luke Howard has earned credits as a pianist, film scorer, and producer in addition to recording his own modern compositions. He worked as an assistant to experimentalists like Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, and Valgeir Sigurðsson while establishing himself as a composer and instrumentalist. The Australian made his Montreux Jazz Festival competition debut in 2001 and began to find work scoring film shorts, television, games, and theater in the late 2000s. He debuted the Luke Howard Trio with Jonathan Zion and Daniel Farrugia on 2010's The Meadowlands, and was nominated for the Australian Music Prize in 2013 for his own Sun, Cloud. He found further national acclaim with 2019's The Sand That Ate the Sea and 2020's All That Is Not Solid (Live at Tempo Rubato, Australia / 2020), both of which were nominated for ARIA Awards.
Howard studied classical piano from an early age and went on to graduate from the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. In the early 2000s, he was a two-time finalist in the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition. While playing piano on recordings by artists including Glenn Cannon, Slava Grigoryan, and Don Banks, he composed music for the 2009 documentary Children of the Eclipse, leading to further assignments in television, film, games, and theater. In 2010, he made his recording debut as bandleader on The Meadowlands by the Luke Howard Trio, which also included bassist Jonathan Zion and drummer Daniel Farrugia. A year later, he released Open Road, a collaborative album with bassist Janos Bruneel. Back in the scoring realm, Howard was an assistant to Ben Frost on his score for the 2011 online game World of Darkness (based on the Andrei Tarkovsky film Solaris). The following year, he assisted Nico Muhly on his album Drones and Valgeir Sigurðsson on Architecture of Loss.
After signing with U.K. label Mercury KX, the year 2013 brought two releases by Howard: the solo LP Sun, Cloud and the trio album A Dove, A Lion, A Coast, A Pirate. Sun, Cloud earned him a nomination for the Australian Music Prize. It was followed by a remix album titled Night, Cloud in 2014, which also saw the release of Two & One. His score to that year's Where Do Lilacs Come From won Best Music for a Short Film at the 2014 APRA/AMCOS Screen Music Awards. A collaboration with trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis, Ten Sails, followed in 2015, and in 2016, Howard released the full-length Two Places on Mercury KX and two solo piano EPs, Forgotten Postcards and Eighty-Eight Days, on 1631 Recordings. The Luke Howard Trio album The Electric Night Descends also arrived in 2016. He returned with Open Heart Story for piano, string orchestra, and electronics in 2018. Inspired by the visuals of the Australian outback by film director Matthew Thorne, he released The Sand That Ate the Sea the following year. The album netted Howard his first ARIA Award nomination for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast, or Show Album. His 2020 release, All That Is Not Solid (Live at Tempo Rubato, Australia / 2020), was also nominated for an ARIA, this time for Best Jazz Album. Reconvening his trio, Howard issued the 2021 EP The Shadow, followed a year later by the full-length The Sanctuary.
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The Sand That Ate The Sea
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 23.08.2019
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Passion / Sleep
Luke Howard, Budapest Art Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 18.03.2021
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MKX x SXSW (Live)
Sebastian Plano, Sophie Hutchings, Lambert, Luke Howard
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 16.07.2021
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Laulasmaa (Live at the Arvo Pärt Centre, Estonia / 2022)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 29.03.2023
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The Great Longing of an Unquiet Heart
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 04.03.2022
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All That Is Not Solid (Live At Tempo Rubato, Australia / 2020)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 30.07.2020
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A Bad Dream That Will Pass Away
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 25.02.2022
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Forgotten Postcards
Klassik - Erschienen bei 1631 Recordings am 28.03.2016
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Beating Heart Stories
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 24.05.2019
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Eighty-Eight Days
Klassik - Erschienen bei 1631 Recordings am 15.09.2016
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All of Us
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 29.04.2022
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Critical Spirit (Live)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mercury Classics am 09.09.2022
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