A native of Watertown, MA, Luca Antonucci holds an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from the Hartt School, where he studied with Edward Cumming and Glen Adsit, and is currently completing a D.M.A. from the world-renowned University of Michigan, where he studies with Kenneth Kiesler. Luca graduated summa cum Laude from Amherst College and was a Fulbright Fellow in Vienna, where he conducted research and published work on Arnold Schönberg in the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center. His article, "Schönberg Conducts Mahler: Exploring A Performance from Schönberg's East Coast Year" can be found in the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center. 

Professionally, Luca currently serves as a Cover Conductor for the Portland Symphony Orchestra, assisting conductors such as Music Director Eckhart Preu, Nir Kabaretti, and Fillippo Ciabatti, and was invited to serve as cover conductor for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He is also the director of the Orchestra Without Borders Boston and the Boston Summer Singers, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Open Door Ensembles of Boston, a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization that presents repertoire by underrepresented composers in community-service outreach and benefit concerts.

Luca has also served as producer of world-premiere recordings with the Grammy-Award-Winning U-M USO of works by Nkeiru Okoye and Vincent Gardner.

Luca has collaborated with and assisted performances by world-renowned artists including Solomiya Ivakhiv, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi, Gilles Apap, Emil Altschuler, Charles Overton, Robert Barefield, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Greg Spirodopoulos, Dana Kaufman, Nicholas Cannelakis, Pärt Uusberg, and others. He regularly works to support young and emerging artists through collaborations with the Michigan Pops Orchestra, Manchester Symphony Orchestra, and others, working with Amy Goto, cellist featured on “From the Top,” Grace Helmke, winner of the Pappoutsakis International Flute Competition, and emerging singers Goitsemang Lehobye, Sofia Madonaldo, and Oluchie Nwakorie.

He is currently serving as Guest Conductor for the Spectrum Orchestra of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as well as the Music Director of the Michigan Pops Orchestra. Luca has worked with every orchestra at the University of Michigan, and in 2023/24 will be the Conductor of the Campus Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor of the University Philharmonia and University Symphony, with which he appears in concert as a member of the Michigan Conducting studio. In 2023/24, he was also the Drs. Spindler and Juran Music Director of the Michigan Life Sciences Orchestra.

He has appeared throughout the US and Europe in conducting masterclasses with noted teachers including Benjamin Zander, Paul Vermel, Donald Portnoy, Peter Jaffe, Diane Wittry, Kenneth Kiesler, and Neil Varon. 

Luca has extensive professional experience with community and semiprofessional orchestras, serving as conductor of the Manchester Symphony Orchestra in Manchester, CT and the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra in Lincoln, MA from 2019-2022. Previously, he was Assistant Conductor and Youth Orchestra Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony, where he created a chamber music program and oversaw successful recruiting and community-outreach programs. 

An enthusiastic advocate of choral music, Luca has worked in a number of church music positions, most recently as Music Director and Organist at the First Parish, Unitarian Universalist in Cohasset, MA, where his tenure included revitalizing the Children's Choir. He currently leads the Boston Summer Singers, formerly the Brookline Chamber Singers, a volunteer ensemble noted for its annual benefit concert in support of the Womens' Lunch Place of Greater Boston. He was previously the Conducting Intern for the world-renowned Zamir Chorale of Boston under Dr. Joshua Jacobson and studied choral conducting with Mallorie Chernin and David Hodgkins. 

Additionally, Luca maintains an active schedule as a performer on the trumpet. Recent performances have included appearances with the University Symphony Orchestra at Michigan, the New England Film Orchestra, Bay Colony Brass, Philharmonia Orchestra under Ken-David Masur, the DuBois Orchestra, and Amity Street and Charles River Brass Quintets. He is especially interested in improvisation, jazz, and the traditional brass band literature of Eastern Europe. From his time performing with the Musikverein Leopoldau, an award-winning wind band in Vienna, Austria, Luca was named "Musical Ambassador to the United States" and is passionate about spreading traditional Bohemian repertoire to ensembles in this country. 

In addition to performing, Mr. Antonucci is a committed educator passionate about teaching music at all levels. He maintains a small private studio of conductors and trumpet players, and from 2017 to 2022, he was the Middle and Upper School Instrumental and General Music Teacher at the Brimmer and May School in Chestnut Hill, MA, where he led a variety of ensembles to new heights of achievement, as well as teaching classes on music theory, music history (including a popular History of Hip-Hop course), songwriting and composition. He also ran the After School Music Program. Luca was the conductor of the MMEA Western Junior District Orchestra in 2018 and is a frequent clinician at local schools. In addition, Luca is a beloved member of the faculty at Lasell Village in Newton, MA, where he teaches classes to residents on topics including Charles Ives, Mozart Operas, Kurt Weill, and the music of Latin America. He has worked at the Rivers Summer Music Program teaching music theory, chamber music, and wind ensemble classes. 

Yeo Ryeong Ahn is becoming increasingly acclaimed for her appearances on the podiums of major orchestras worldwide. In Europe, she has conducted Bamberger Symphoniker and Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz in Germany and the Paris Mozart Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway, and the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda in Hungary. In the United States, she was selected to be the only 2022 Conducting Fellow in the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Also, she was a 2021 Fellow in the highly prestigious Dallas Opera Hart Institute for Women Conductors, and has conducted the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, among others. She also participated in the Järvi Conducting Academy at the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia. Recently, she was advanced to the final stages in the La Maestra Competition in Paris, the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Monaco, and the Gustav Mahler Competition in Germany. 

She began studying conducting at the Korea National University of Arts, where she received a Bachelors degree. Later, as an honored recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, she earned a Master of Music at the University of Illinois under the guidance of Donald Schleicher. She is currently studying orchestral conducting with renowned pedagogue and conductor Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan. Her teachers have also included Peter Eötvös, Johannes Schlaefli, Christian Ehwald, and Paavo Järvi, among others.