Lance Luce

Detroit, Michigan

Lance Luce is an internationally acclaimed theatre organist. He has played hundreds of concerts all over the United States, Canada, England and Australia. He was recently named the 2014 Organist of the Year by the American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS).

His concerts are praised for appealing to audiences of all ages, containing a wide variety of musical styles. He has played concerts for numerous chapters of the ATOS and other affiliated theatre organ groups and clubs. He has played for National and regional conventions of the ATOS in the United states and in Australia for the Theatre Organ Society of Australia.

Lance began playing the theatre pipe organ at age ten at the Royal Oak Theatre near his Michigan home. By age thirteen he was playing at the same theatre for Intermissions. During his teenage years he began playing the organ at a local church on Sundays and performed countless times for area organ clubs and societies. At age eighteen, Lance won 1st place honours in the Yamaha National Electone organ competition in California. The next year he was appointed the Head Staff Organist at Radio City Music Hall in New York, on the largest Wurlitzer ever built. Lance has made many recordings, including being part of the famous “Theatre Organ Greats - A Salute to Radio City Music Hall.”

For many years, Lance was the house organist at several family style restaurants, two of them in Michigan. While at the Organ Grinder in Toronto he played for well over a million patrons in his eight year run.

Lance has been a church organ consultant in Michigan since 1991. He is currently the church organ consultant for Allen organs as well as being an Allen Artist. Lance has designed and installed over three hundred organs in churches, homes and institutions. His background includes pipe organ maintenance as well as electronic organ design, installation, voicing, pipe interfacing and MIDI implementation.

Lance is currently on the staff at the Fox Theatre and Redford Theatre in Detroit, and the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. He has been a church organist for thirty-eight years, recording artist, as well as concert artist.