| Voice/Instrument: | Clarinet |
Biography
Clarinetist Andrew Leonard has soloed with the Pasadena Pops, the Torrance Symphony, and performed as a prizewinner of the Redlands Music Festival and Peninsula Music Festival Young Artist auditions. He has also performed on 3 continents with artists as varied as Helmuth Rilling, Hilary Hahn, John Williams, Tony Danza and John Rutter. A New Jersey native, he began his clarinet studies with Andy Lamy of the NJ Symphony and Alan Kay at the Julliard School's Pre-College division. Andrew received a Bachelor of Music in clarinet performance in 2005 at the University of Southern California where he studied with Yehuda Gilad and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As a passionate believer in Los Angeles's musical future, Andrew is on the teaching artist faculty of the Harmony Project, the Young Musicians Foundation and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.