About

Luke Colombero is a composer, music educator, and guitarist from Aliso Viejo, California. His original compositions fuse influences from Javanese gamelan, Hindustani and Carnatic music, microtonal jazz fusion, djent, modern classical, musical theatre, electronica, and progressive rock. After working in Los Angeles as an actor and model since age 4, he began studying Film Production and Media Studies at Emerson College from 2020 through 2022, providing music to multiple short films; he later won the Platinum Award for Best Original Score at the 2023 Independent Shorts Awards for his work on The Princess and the Pond. Luke soon transferred to Berklee College of Music, graduating in 2025 with a Bachelor of Music in Film & Media Scoring with a minor in Game & Interactive Media Scoring. He has scored promotional pieces for UNICEF and oversaw the creation of Soundfactory VR, a virtual reality music composition tool using 3D-knit gloves with haptic feedback. He currently pursues his masters of science in Extended Realities degree at Northeastern University under the Wireless Networking concentration from the College of Engineering.

When not creating music and audio for media, Luke plays lead guitar in Boston-based math rock outfit Little Plastic Dinosaurs led by Emma Harner and world jazz quartet Intrepid Traditions led by Kunal Gunjal. He has a passion for learning about and applying extended reality (XR) technologies throughout numerous fields in the music scene. He has hosted the workshop “XR Music Performance and Collaboration” at MIT Reality Hack 2026 publicly debuting his mixed reality live music performance app “Real Eyes,” and won Meta’s Best Hand Tracking Implementation for Quest 3 track at the same event for his work as audio specialist on the music spellcasting tower defense game “JazzCasters.” He is working on game audio and music for the upcoming 3D rougelike Grimorium by Burklebear Games.