Craig Leon
Musical artist
Craig Leon (born 7 January 1952) is an American-born record producer, composer and arranger currently living in England. Leon was instrumental in launching the careers of many recording artists including The Ramones and Blondie. Active in pop music production from 1974–1998, Leon has focused on classical composition, orchestration, arrangement and recording from 1998 to the present. His work appears on many classical recordings with artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Andreas Scholl, Sir James Galway, Joshua Bell, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra.As well as numerous UK and foreign television programmes Leon's work has featured in major films including The Karate Kid (2010), Ghost River, Ladies in Lavender, 200 Cigarettes, Sid and Nancy and Revenge of the Nerds amongst many others. His underscore and musical supervision work in the film Maestro will be released in 2015.Leon has recently turned to work combining audio and visual imagery. Recently he has completed work as an audio/visual producer and musical director/composer of the PBS broadcast "Quest beyond The Stars" which was filmed in the UK and commenced broadcasting in June 2012 and the U.K. produced Discovery Network broadcast "Orbit:Journey to the Moon" which was viewed on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. He is also the audio producer and musical director of the PBS broadcast "Bell’aria: Live".In 2011 Leon completed the Sony Classical recording of "Midwinter's Eve: Music For Christmas" featuring his orchestrations and arrangements of Christmas music performed by The London Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Warren-Green.In 2012 he also completed writing, production and arrangement work on the new album by noted Irish folk artist Méav which was released in September 2013 on Atlas Realisations through Warner Music in Ireland and reached number 3 on the Irish national pop album charts. Worldwide releases to follow in 2014.In 2013 "Nommos" an avant-garde electronic album that was originally released on Takoma Records in 1981 was reissued as a vinyl only limited edition paving the way for the full release of both early electronic works written by Leon, "Nommos" and "Visiting", in April, 2014. Leon has been performing both works at selected venues in the U.S. and Europe in 2014-15.He has also completed the production of the opening and closing ceremony for the Dubai World Cup 2014 which was broadcast on 29 March 2014.Leon is currently working on new composition projects involving combinations of synthesizers and orchestral instruments. Releases on Sony Masterworks and Atlas Realisations are planned for 2015-16.
Personal facts
| Birth date | January 07, 1952 |
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