as a KEYBOARDIST
Satoko Doi-Luck takes pleasure in a diverse career, as a keyboardist, a composer, and a director. Satoko regularly gives solo recitals as well as enjoys playing with orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Rachel Podger with Brecon Baroque and English Touring Opera with whom she has directed the performances of Bach’s St John’s passion. In 2022, she directed Hasse’s opera Antonio e Cleopatra from the keyboard at the Buxton Festival. She was the Assistant Music Director & Repetiteur at the Longborough Opera for the production of Purcell’s Fairy Queen last summer.
As a keen chamber musician; Satoko is a founding member of Ensemble Molière and Ceruleo. Ensemble Molière was the first-ever BBC Radio 3 New Geration Baroque Ensemble (2021-2023) and a finalist in the York International Young Artists Competition (2017), and has been performing throughout Europe and in the UK. They are especially passionate about bringing French baroque repertoire to wider audiences in the UK. With Ceruleo, she toured Burying the Dead - an original concert-play by Clare Norburn about the life and music of Henry Purcell - to various festivals in the UK including Buxton, Lake District and Ryedale. Their 2nd album will be released soon on Resonus.
as a composer
She completed her undergraduate studies at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She came to England to continue her composition studies at the Royal College of Music with Michael Zev Gordon and Kenneth Hesketh, as a scholar supported by the PRS Sir Arthur Bliss Foundation, the Alice Templeton Award and an Overseas Artist grant from the Japanese Government.
Her major past achievements include a short ballet; Les Emotion, performed by the English National Ballet, choreographed by Van le Ngoc, and a piano solo piece which was performed at St. Pauls Cathedral as part of the City of London Festival, as well as participated orkest de ereprijs¡Ç YCM 2010 in Apeldoorn, Netherland. After gaining MMus in advanced composition from the RCM, Satoko is now based in London and enjoys composing music for a wide range of mediums.
Her pieces for string quartet were performed by the players of the Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment at their Nightshift tour in 2013 and 2015. Recently she had commissions from CoMA (premiered at Shoreditch Town Hall), London Music Masters (premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank), and Music in the Village.