Ben Luedcke is in his first season with Masterworks Choral Ensemble and he brings a variety of conducting and leadership experiences to the organization.
Ben is the Minister of Music at Seattle First Baptist Church in downtown Seattle, and the Artistic Director of the Bellevue Chamber Chorus. He is currently finishing his Doctorate of Musical Arts in choral conducting at University of Washington, and he has held teaching positions at UW in the Choral, Musicology, and English departments.
Before moving to Washington, Ben completed a Master’s in Choral Conducting at University of Iowa, and subsequently served as faculty at Grinnell College, where he taught voice and conducted both the Grinnell Singers and the Grinnell Oratorio Society, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Monmouth College where he taught voice and conducted the Monmouth Chorale and chamber choir.
Ben is known in Madison, Wisconsin as both a voice teacher and as the conductor and founder of several startup organizations: he was the co-founder and director of Voces Aestatis, a Wisconsin-based professional choir that specialized in the a cappella repertoire of the sixteenth century. Likewise, for ten years Ben was the founder and artistic director of Madison Summer Choir, a large community chorus that performed choral orchestral works.
In his spare time, Ben is most often hiking with his wife and his two dogs, and otherwise exploring Washington’s many amazing trails, trying new craft beers, and binging good science fiction.
