Bart Marantz Plays Bach Selmer Trumpets and Flugelhorns exclusively.

Luke Marantz Biography

Luke Marantz is currently a student at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He is an alumni of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas. He has won 14 “Downbeat Student Music Awards” since 2004 in instrumental jazz piano, composition, jazz vocal and instrumental and vocal ensembles including winning best jazz soloist in North America two years in a row on piano in 2008 and 2009.

He was selected as one of seventeen in the nation to attend the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony in 2006 and 2007. He was also selected as one of twelve in the nation (one of two pianists) for the 2008 Vail Jazz Workshop as a Vail Jazz All Star. Luke was selected as the pianist for the UNL national honor jazz big band performing for three days at the University of Nebraska and working with the Vanguard Jazz orchestra. In October of 2008 He was Selected as the pianist for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Sextet. The group was featured at the Annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition opening for Herbie Hancock, B.B. King, Wayne Shorter, Terrence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cassandra Wilson, and Quincy Jones.

Luke was the pianist for the nationally recognized Jazz Combo I and Midi Ensemble at Booker T. and during his first two years there he performed with the Lab Singers vocal jazz ensemble. He has received jazz instruction from Bart Marantz, Kent Ellingson and Kim Cornell Frie there. His private teacher’s include Roger Boykin and Stefan Karlsson. Luke currently studies with Fred Hersch and Frank Carlberg at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston Massachusetts.