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Artist
Laura Leon
12+ albums
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Laura Leon has received wide acclaim for her performances and recordings of an exciting roster of American composers, including Peter Schickele, Eric Ewazen, Hugo Weisgall, Leo Kraft, William Bolcom, Vincent Persichetti, Steven Rosenhaus, Richard Hundley, Lee Hoiby, Norman Dello Joio, Morton Gould--along with Sting, Piazzolla, Bartok, Hindemith and Billy Joel. These include the 2013 videos created by Karen Leon and Broken Tail Productions with film scores featuring Laura's recorded performances of two works by New York composer Steven Rosenhaus: January's Matilda Variations--extraordinary paintings of noted Australian artist Ian Banksmith with Rosenhaus' Matilda Variations, based on Waltzing Matilda; and the April release of NYC Surprising Subway Story: The Hat That Never Made It To Times Square. Recent performances include June 3, 2012 Music In Our Time American Society for Jewish Music concert performance of Hugo Weisgall songs with soprano Ena Freeman, the March 29, 2011 concert celebrating Peter Schickele's 75th Birthday Season at Steinway Hall in NYC; Heifer International's Bee Day Celebration premiering Mark Isham's Secret LIfe of Bees-Suite for Piano; Hugo Weisgall's The Golden Peacock with soprano Emily Duncan-Brown at the Center for Jewish History's symposium Imagination and Catastrophe: Art and the Aftermath of Genocide; the New York Australian Consulate-General, with the world premiere of Steven Rosenhaus' Matilda Variations and the White House/Captiol Hill's Yom
