As a composer, Ramona Luengen is privileged to have had her works performed and recorded in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan by performers and ensembles including the former CBC Radio Orchestra, Chanticleer, Choeur de femmes Calliope (France), Chor Leoni, Jane Coop, Sally Dibblee, Elektra Women’s Choir, Elora Festival Singers, Judith Forst, musica intima, Oriana Singers, Peninsula Women’s Chorus (California), Brett Polegato, San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, Sequitur New Music Ensemble (New York), Winnipeg Singers and the 1990, 1994 and 2000 National Youth Choirs of Canada. Her music has been broadcast on CBC, BBC, WDR (Germany), and the national radio stations of Denmark, Hungary, Sweden and, most recently, Spain.

In September 2006 her Piano Concerto was premiered by Jane Coop and the CBC Radio Orchestra in the Orpheum Theatre. 2005-2006 saw over 150 performances of Luengen’s opera for young audiences, Naomi’s Road, based on Joy Kogawa’s novel. Commissioned by Vancouver Opera for its Opera in the Schools Programme, the opera was viewed by over 41,000 students and adults in BC, Alberta, Seattle (Washington) as well as Ottawa’s National War Museum.

In 2006 Luengen received the BC Choral Federation’s Herbert Drost Award for distinguished service and long-term support of choral music in British Columbia and was also nominated in the Arts and Culture Category of the YWCA’s 23rd Annual Woman of Distinction Award. In 2004 she was a recipient of the inaugural Vancouver Arts Award.

Luengen has been the Artistic Director of Phoenix Chamber Choir since taking over the reins from founder-conductor Cortland Hultberg on his retirement in 1995. She presently also conducts the Amabilis Singers (New Westminster) and the Shaughnessy Heights Sanctuary Choir. As a sessional lecturer for over twelve years, Luengen taught a variety of courses in composition, counterpoint, theory, and 20th century music appreciation at both UBC and SFU.