Luke Gullickson is a composer, pianist, and guitarist whose aesthetic embraces classical and new concert music, jazz/improvisational styles, post-rock, and acoustic music. Luke writes concert music under his own name, releases hybrid-genre instrumental albums as Lake of Five Oceans, and plays and records indie-folk music as Golconda. In all categories, he takes great inspiration from the interpersonal energy of informal music-making as well as travel, the outdoors, and ideas of place. Luke studied at the University of Texas at Austin (MM), Illinois Wesleyan University (BA), and the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, and has been a resident artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Joshua Tree National Park.