Luke Mombrea is an American composer of modern classical and electroacoustic music. He is best known for works utilizing live electronic elements, microtonality, folk music materials and field recordings.^[2][3]

Mombrea studied cognitive science and music composition at the University of California, Los Angeles,^[4] before receiving a Master's of Music in composition at the Royal College of Music, London.^[5][6]

His string quartet Lowlands was premiered by the Carducci Quartet in 2023 and features archival folk music transformed into looping minimalist structures.^[3]

In December 2023 Mombrea's piece Aurora for magnetic resonator piano was commissioned by The Night With... and performed by Xenia Pestova Bennett as part of the University of Leeds International Concert Series.^[7]

His piece Black Gold was commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2023^[8] and received it's premiere at LSO St. Luke's in May 2024.^[9] Performances of his concert music have been featured on both BBC 3 Radio and NTS Radio.^[10][11]

Mombrea has also had numerous audiovisual works featured at venues including Art Basel,^[12] the Wallace Collection, Olbrich Botanical Gardens,^[13] Culver City Hall^[14] and the Barbican Centre.^[15]

He also works regularly in film and television, recently scoring the upcoming HBO pilot Point Unknown, which stars the musical artist Corbin.^[16] Mombrea has also worked in the music department of numerous other projects.^[17] His credits include Silo, Emancipation, Loki and Endeavour.^[18]