Lukas Hasler (born 1996) currently lives and works as a Doctor of Musical Arts doctoral student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he studies with Cherry Rhodes. He is the music director and organist of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Corona del Mar. Lukas graduated with distinction in 2022 from his organ studies under Ulrich Walther at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. In 2020 he spent a year abroad at the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg in France under the tutelage of Johann Vexo. Lukas completed his studies in cultural and media management at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he finished in 2019 with a Master’s degree.

Lukas has a thriving international concert career, which has already taken him to Europe, Asia, and Australia, as well as to some of the largest cathedrals in the United States. In 2022, he was the first classical musician to perform in Ukraine after the start of the war, and played two benefit concerts in the Lviv Concert Hall for the victims of the war. Lukas has won the “Prima la musica” competition for organ twice and in 2019 took the “Grand Prix” at the International Organ Competition in Malta. In 2014 he also won the “Bärenreiter-Special” prize for his interpretation of J.S. Bach. He has attended masterclasses with Jean Guillou, Ton Koopman, Ludger Lohmann and Skip Sempé. His first album, A Portrait, released in 2019, features organ music by Bach, Liszt, Dupré and his own improvisations. In the following year he was named “Rising Star” by the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung. With more than 80,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, he is one of the world’s most successful organists on social media.