St. John's Jesuit Department of Music:
Luke Rosen

Luke D. Rosen received his Bachelor of Music (Choral Music Education) and Master of Music (Choral Conducting Performance) degrees from Bowling Green State University. At Bowling Green, he also studied composition.

He joined the St. John’s Jesuit faculty in 2004, serving as Director of Choral and Liturgical Music, Director of the Fox Music Technology Lab, and moderator of the Promethean yearbook. In addition to his position at St. John’s Jesuit, he has served as the Director of Music Ministry at Corpus Christi University Parish, serving the Catholic community at the University of Toledo, since 2000.

A clinician for the Toledo chapter of National Pastoral Musicians, he has offered workshops on liturgical piano and piano improvisation. He was the first student representative to the Ohio Choral Directors Association state choral board, and currently serves as webmaster for the organization. He has been an active member of the Toledo Masterworks Chorale since 2006.

He writes frequently for the church, premiering many of his compositions at Corpus Christi. Other composition premiers have taken place at St. John’s Jesuit, Bowling Green State University, and with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony Orchestra. In addition to contributing to numerous audio and video recordings, he has also released two CDs of original works: “Stations of the Cross – Prayer in Music” and “Comfort and Joy – Christmas at Corpus Christi University Parish”.