Luke Rinderknecht, timpanist and percussionist, began his training with Matthew Bassett and earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Juilliard where he studied with Greg Zuber, Gordon Gottlieb, and Daniel Druckman.

He has performed with a variety of chamber orchestras including the Metropolis Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Cleveland’s baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire, and The Knights, with whom he recorded three albums on the Sony Classical label.

Since 2013, he has been principal timpanist and solo percussionist for CityMusic Cleveland, performing two of Avner Dorman’s double percussion concertos with Haruka Fujii and CityMusic during that time: Uzu and Muzu from Kakaruzu and Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! Luke performs chamber music with the No Exit New Music and Blue Streak Ensembles, and at Bowdoin International Music Festival every summer since 2010. At Bowdoin he also coaches chamber music, teaches percussion, and leads a seminar for pre-college students on practicing, rehearsing, auditioning, performing, and expanding their understanding of chamber music.

Luke is on the faculty of Cleveland State University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he teaches percussion to pre-college students in the Academy.