2017
- TCO Composition Competition 2018, commission for a new work for the Toronto Chinese Orchestra
winners: Lucas Oickle & Bruce Bai
- Chime in, Canada! Sesquicentennial carillon composition competition, hosted by the House of Commons in celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary
Fifteen Decades (2017) - winner, youth category
2016
- Via Choralis 2016 Composition Competition
through the azure skies (2016) - winner, 1st place
- Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts (MCPA) - 130th Anniversary Commission
winning applicant - 130th anniversary commission
- NSYO 40th Anniversary Season - opener w Nadina Mackie Jackson
squeezed through wood (2016) invited composition for season opener concert feat bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson
- Piano Erhu Project - China Concert Tour 2016
Firewall (2015) selected for concert tour program to China: Wuhan / Beijing / Shanghai
- Synesthesia IV pt 1 (FAWN Chamber Collective)
Sawari (2014) selected for performance
- Sound of Dragon Festival 2016
PM2.5 (2016) selected for premiere
- University of British Columbia: Centennial Commission
Thunderbird Fanfare (2016) commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of classes at UBC
- Sonic Boom Festival 2016
They cut down the mountains (2015) selected for performance
2015
- Vox Novus 15th Anniversary Concert
slowly changing mornings (2015) selected for premiere
- Portsmouth International Film Festival - Nomination: Best short film score
Arc - short film soundtrack (2015) - Directed by Amartei Armar. Score by Lucas Oickle.
- SOCAN Foundation Award: 2015 Godfrey Ridout Award
Three Songs on Poems by Vancouver Downtown Eastside Poets (2015) - tied for 3rd place
- Basklarinet Festijin 2016 miniatures competition
Sugar Tree (2015) selected for premiere in Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2015 Goodwill Ambassador: Nova Scotia Talent Trust
Lucas has been invited to act as the NSTT Goodwill Ambassador for the 2015 season. (nstalenttrust.ns.ca)
- Musica Intima - Novum Musica 2015
Aitake (2014) selected for reading & workshop
2014
- Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble - 2015 Call for Emerging Composers
Selected as one of several emerging composers to be commissioned to write a new piece for the VCME
- Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - 2015 Jean-Coulthard Readings
Lunar Mansions (2014) - selected for reading by the VSO
- Dim Sum Ensemble - National Call for Scores
Shanghai Asterisms (2014) - one of five selected for premiere in November 2014
- Green Dot Journey Composer Competition
- Nova Scotia Talent Trust - Scholarship
2-week Sundanese gamelan degung / suling degung study intensive with master musician Ade Suparman in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
- 2nd Annual Bathurst Chamber Music Festival: Composer-in-Residence
- Via Choralis: 2014 Composition Competition
Asterism IV (2014) - winner
- Penthelia Singers: Canadian Folk Song Arranging Contest
Farewell to Nova Scotia (2014) - winner
- Vancouver Pro Musica: 1st Annual "Highway 1" Call for Scores
Straphangers - Vancouver (2014) selected for premiere by the Chamber Musicians of Kamloops
- Vox Novus - Composers' Voice - Thomas Piercy & Vilian Ivantchev 15 Minutes of Fame "Japan Perspective"
Matsuri Miniature (2013) selected as one of 15 winners
- Dim Sum Ensemble: "Erhu Composition Workshop"
Asterism V (2013) selected
- Redshift Music Society: "Call for Ringtone Scores"
Ringtone Miniature for Octet (2013) selected as one of 15 winners
2013
- Vine Orchestra's Call for 6-second Miniatures
"Six Second Triple Concerto" (2013) selected for Texas premiere
- Harpster Music Publishing
"Guitar Duet" (2007) published out of Las Vegas
- Nova Scotia Kiwanis Festival: Open Composition Class
Amaranthus Caudatus II (2011) - winner
- TEMPO New Music Ensemble: "Spring Call for Scores"
The Great Firewall of China (2012) - winner
2012
- 12/13 Inaugural "Featured Student Composer" of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra
Constellations (2012)
- Alice Maud Fitch Grant Memorial Scholarship (Acadia School of Music)
- Dr. Don Wright Award in Music (Acadia School of Music)
- E.A. Collins Award in Music - Composition (Acadia School of Music)
2011
- Alice Maud Fitch Grant Memorial Scholarship (Acadia School of Music)
- Dr. Don Wright Award in Music (Acadia School of Music)
- E.A. Collins Award in Music - Composition (Acadia School of Music)
- Wallace and Trenna Turner Scholarship (Acadia School of Music)
2010
- David Vernon Memorial Award (Acadia School of Music)
- Wallace and Trenna Turner Scholarship (Acadia School of Music)