Brian Locke is an American pianist, organist, conductor, coach, and répétiteur whose career spans throughout academia, opera, concertizing, and church music. Having been called "a stand out" (The Whole Note, Toronto), he has appeared before discerning audiences in cities and venues in North America and Europe. Brian was soloist with the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra, the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the President’s Own Marine Corps chamber orchestra. He has collaborated with artists from the Lyric Opera of Chicago and with companies including Opera Birmingham and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, who invited him to be Music Director of their Artists-in-Residence. Since 2008, Brian has been active in church music, presently serving as Associate Director of Music and Parish Organist at St. Mary's Episcopal, Park Ridge, IL since March 2018, and he is a member of the Association of Anglican Musicians. In various capacities as baritone, organist, coach, and conductor he previously served the Cathedral parishes of St. James, Chicago and St. Philip, Atlanta. Moreover, Mr. Locke’s specialty lies in chamber music and repertoire for the voice, increasingly in demand by instrumentalists and singers to coach and perform with him in this specialized niche.

Mr. Locke has served on the music faculty at Loyola University, Chicago and the Interlochen Center for the Arts; and as coach/pianist at DePaul, Northwestern, and the University of Michigan. He has frequented festival stages and studios throughout the United States and Canada including Aspen, Brevard, Heifetz, Interlochen, Southeastern Piano Festival, Toronto Summer Music and has been heard in Merkin Hall (NYC), Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor), Ganz Hall (Chicago), and Steinway Salon (Paris), and an ever-expanding number of cities. His teachers and mentors include Katherine Collier, Barry Snyder, André Watts, Douglas Weeks, and Oxana Yablonskaya, and he holds degrees from the University of South Carolina (BM) and the University of Michigan (MM) in the studios of Marina Lomazov and Martin Katz