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Michael Laucke (born 29 January1947) is a Canadian classical, new flamenco, and flamenco guitarist and composer, as well as a music industry businessman.

Laucke was introduced to flamenco by Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucía when the two shared a loft in New York City in the early 1970s. He was selected in 1982 by Andrés Segovia to perform for the PBS network at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, following which he became Segovia's pupil. He performed mainly on classical guitar until 1990; from then on, his concerts have consisted exclusively of flamenco and new flamenco works.

In addition to Segovia, Laucke has studied with other classical guitar players, including Julian Bream, Alirio Díaz and Rolando Valdès-Blain. With his more than 100transcriptions of classical and flamenco music, Laucke is credited with having broadened the guitar repertoire. Still active in a career spanning five decades, he began performing in 1965, recording the first of 16 albums in 1969, and has toured in 25countries.

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