Based in New York City, Joel Diamond's varied career has been noteworthy for an extraordinary array of eclectic choices and influences. He has enjoyed diverse experiences as a composer, arranger, producer and performer of both 'serious' and contemporary music. He is adept with Eastern as well as an American repertoire. His choices are avant garde, both as performer and composer. The fusion of traditional orchestral and contemporary electronica create a striking film-music style.

Selected by Variety as one of 20 'Creatives to Watch' Diamond created the score for the immensely powerful film "The Believer" (written and directed by Henry Bean). Winner of the Feature Film Competition for Drama at Sundance 2001, a rare honor, the film was singled out by Rolling Stone's Peter Travers as was "Joel Diamond's haunting score." Kirk Honeycutt's review in The Hollywood Reporter noted "the craftsmanship is first-rate-especially a moody and edgy score by Joel Diamond."

His Work will be featured this month on PBS with the Premier of The Documentary "Milking the Rhino" directed and written by David E. Simpson for Kartemquin Films and for additional Music for the Premier at MOMA and Lincoln Center of the Animated Feature, $9.99.
He is currently finishing a Ballet commissioned by Texas University based on "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Marquez
Joel recently completed the score for the documentary "Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis" which premiered at last years' Tribecca Film Festival, "The Junction" directed by Ilan Ziv which won first prize at the Haifa Film festival, "Stalins' Wife" directed by Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky), and "Creating Karma"written and directed by Jill Wisoff.

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