Luke Styles is a British Australian composer whose work is performed regularly throughout the world. Styles was the first Glyndebourne Young Composer-in-Residence, the first Composer-in-Residence at the Foundling Museum since Handel, and the 2022 British Council Musician-in-Residence to Brazil. He is the artistic director of the Deal Festival.
His recent triptych of orchestral and vocal works premiered at the Three Choirs Festival (UK), the Musée du quai Branly (Paris), and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl (Melbourne) by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Le Balcon. From these works, No Friend but the Mountains has been turned into a two-part ABC TV documentary and will receive its UK premiere at the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra in June 2025.
Styles has composed eight operas for opera houses, festivals and orchestras around the world. His Macbeth was performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Glyndebourne, and his Awakening Shadow premiered at the Cheltenham Music Festival, Presteigne Festival and received a second production by Sydney Chamber Opera in 2022.
Styles is published by G. Schirmer and Belle Symphonie.