D.M.A., M.M., Manhattan School of Music B.A., Binghamton University Superior Piano Degree, Conservatorio Superior de Música y Danza de Sevilla (Spain) MU 111 Introduction to Music MU 116A Piano Performance MU 125 Elementary Music Theory MU 202 Analysis and History of European Art Music II Pianist Jose Garcia-Leon is a first prize winner of numerous national and international competitions, including the Artist International Competition of New York. Dr. Garcia-Leon has performed extensively as a solo recitalist, most notably at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Saint Petersburg Music Festival, the Soulahti Summer Festival in Finland, the Shandelee Showcase Series in New York, the Marienbad International Festival in the Czech Republic, and also in Ireland, Thailand, Chile, France and throughout Spain. In addition, he has worked with conductors like Timothy Perry, Florin Totan from the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra and Constantine Orbelian with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra; and has made recordings for national television and radio programs in Spain, the United States and South East Asia. He has participated in Master Classes of renown pianists such as Sergei Arzumanov, Sara Davis Buechner, Zenon Fishbein, Lev Vlasenko as well as Valery Kastelsky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and Leonid Brumberg at the Conservatory of Vienna. Jose Garcia-Leon was born in Seville, Spain. After graduating with highest honors from the Conservatorio Superior de Sevilla, he moved to New York where he completed a Doctorate in Musical Arts at the Manhattan School of Music. His main teachers have been Nina Svetlanova and Sophia Rosoff. |