Music & Projects

Compositions

Luke's compositional output spans a wide variety of musical genres, with a particular focus on choral music, opera, and musical theatre.

Choral Works
SATB · Chamber Orchestra

Breathing in the Awe

A multi-movement work for chorus and chamber orchestra, with each movement honoring a different U.S. National Park — a living musical record of the country's wild places. More below ↓

SATB · Piano · Percussion

93 Million Miles Away

An epic, radiant celebration of the sun and its quiet, constant beauty — equally at home opening a concert or closing one, written for a program devoted to the wonder of the cosmos.

SSATBB A Cappella

When We Two Parted

A choral work setting the poem of the same name by Lord Byron (1788–1824) — a quiet meditation on loss, heartbreak, and love remembered long after in silence, for unaccompanied choir.

SATB · Percussion Ensemble

Aurore

A celebratory piece for the opera Ma Grâce Te Suffit — a surface tribute to the Aurora Borealis, with deeper meaning in its title character.

Opera & Musical Theater

Ma Grâce Te Suffit

Ma Grâce Te Suffit, in black script lettering over a violet cloudy sky, “A Music Drama by Luke Diamond”

An opera whose title is French for My Grace Is Sufficient. It is based on Aurore and Aimée, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy tale of two sisters and the trials of the elder, Aurore.

Flooded: The First Lockdown

Flooded: The First Lockdown, a black silhouette of Noah’s Ark with animals under a rainbow

A musical written in 2020 that sets the trials of that year against the flood of Noah’s Ark: separation from loved ones, confinement, and the strain on social life.

What Have You Got to Lose?

What Have You Got to Lose?, in bold white script lettering on a black-and-white checkerboard

Written for Hogar de Niños Emmanuel, a children’s home for orphans in Honduras. The story tells of beloved classic toys that come to life and compete on a game show of trivia, board games, dice, and cards.

The Trouble with Gold

The Trouble with Gold, in gold lettering on the cover of an old leather book

A backstage retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in which a cast of Grimm characters learns that “’tis much better to give than to receive.”

Please contact Luke if you're interested in performing or licensing any of these works.

This is just a sample of Diamond's library.
If you're interested in his other music, feel free to reach out.

Conducting

Luke serves as Music Director for the Tucson Masterworks Chorale and Christ Presbyterian Church, and has led public educational ensembles ranging from elementary bands to high school choirs. He is a board member of the Arizona Choral Arts Association.

He has also worked with a range of other choruses around town over the years — youth choruses, barbershop choruses, adult community choruses, and collegiate choruses — including work carried out virtually during the pandemic.

Some of the masterworks Luke has conducted include:

  • The Drop That Contained the Sea— Christopher Tin
  • The Seasons— Haydn
  • Carmina Burana— Carl Orff
  • Dona Nobis Pacem— Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Missa Papae Marcelli— Palestrina
  • Mirjams Siegesgesang— Schubert
  • Mass in D— Ethel Smyth
  • Three Nocturnes— Dan Forrest
  • Adiemus Colores— Karl Jenkins
  • Elegischer Gesang, Op. 118— Beethoven

Luke conducting Grand Canyon from Breathing in the Awe

Luke Diamond conducting on the podium

Music Direction & Freelance Work

Luke is an active pianist and vocalist, performing regularly at Tucson's Gaslight Theatre. Beyond conducting and performing, he works extensively as a music director for musical theatre — leading pit ensembles, music-directing rehearsals, and shaping full productions, both in schools and in the community.

Some of the musicals Luke has music directed include:

  • Mary Poppins
  • Jekyll & Hyde
  • West Side Story
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Into the Woods
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Funny Girl
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • …and a variety of junior musicals

Playing & performing — live at The Gaslight

Supporters at the Gaslight Theatre

Supporters at the Gaslight Theatre

Supporters at the Arts Express production of Funny Girl

Supporters at the Arts Express production of Funny Girl

The orchestra for the 2018 production of West Side Story at the Geyer Theater

The orchestra for the Geyer Theater's 2018 production of West Side Story

Breathing in the Awe

Music Honoring the National Parks

Tucson Masterworks Chorale performing Breathing in the Awe with national park imagery projected behind the choir

The Tucson Masterworks Chorale
premiering Breathing in the Awe, 2026

National parks showcase the geographic diversity of this country and the beauty of the natural world. In tribute to these treasures — and to unite two of his greatest passions, choral music and the outdoors — Luke has taken on an ambitious, long-term endeavor: composing a unique choral work inspired by each of the U.S. National Parks.

This journey began with a new set of compositions premiered with the Tucson Masterworks Chorale in Spring 2026, honoring Yosemite, Acadia, Badlands, Saguaro, New River Gorge, Dry Tortugas, Grand Teton, Mt. Rainier, and the Grand Canyon.

Each movement is paired with original poetry written by Luke himself, drawn from time actually spent in these places — standing at an overlook, hiking a trail, or simply sitting still long enough to let a landscape make its impression. The choral writing follows that same instinct, leaning on open voicings and long, breath-like phrases that mirror the scale of what inspired them.

The project is intended to grow for years to come, with new parks and new movements added as Luke's own travels continue — a living musical record of the country's wild places, one park at a time.

“While acknowledging that no composition can fully capture the vast beauty of Mother Nature, I believe her splendor and power demand to be celebrated through song.”

— Luke Diamond, Artistic Vision, Tucson Masterworks Chorale
Read the Full Project Story ↗ Listen: Big Blend Radio Episode ↗
Parks Honored in This Collection
Yosemite National ParkYosemite

And just when you think that you've heard every word and you've seen all there is to be seen, open your eyes, behold.

Grand Teton National ParkGrand Teton

Sentinels of rock and snow, guarding precious greenery, guarding o'er the earth below, an ever brilliant scenery.

New River Gorge National ParkNew River Gorge

See adventures on the river, see a journey on the land. Cross the bridge with open wonder, let your wildest dreams expand.

Acadia National ParkAcadia

Though one may paint with skillful, patient care, no work can hold this vast creation rare. A masterpiece no brush can truly claim, but only held memories to cherish frame.

Dry Tortugas National ParkDry Tortugas

Your sands are rich with treasure, your thoughts are aged and wise, your sea life blessed with pleasure, your bird life blessed with skies.

Badlands National ParkBadlands

Jagged ridges, jagged teeth that saw on the horizon, fragile hills, and underneath a labyrinth to get lost in.

Mount Rainier National ParkMount Rainier

Beauty, pure to see, captivating me, in this sight, no flaw — breathing in the awe.

Saguaro National ParkSaguaro

The boundless sky spreads far and wide, the sun unhindered roams with pride, and basking in its desert charms, Saguaro reigns with open arms.

Grand Canyon National ParkGrand Canyon

How many hundreds and thousands, millions and billions have been blessed in all your worth? How many years and decades, centuries, millennia, have you blessed the earth?

Breathing in the Awe

Full recording coming soon

Booking or press inquiries welcome.