Leon Milo, Composer, Percussionist, Sound Artist

Leon Milo creates music and sonic environments in which instruments, electronics, natural sounds, and synthesis are unified. His works are presented the world over and include instrumental and electro-acoustic music for the concert hall, dance, film, television, radio, public sound installations, galleries and museums.

Commissions have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Ensemble, The Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway, New Music Los Angeles, Los Angeles Piano Spheres, The International Beethoven Festival, IRCAM (Paris), Radio France, Foro Internacional de MÅ“sica Nueva Mexico City, 38eme Rugissants, (Grenoble) and the Festival Ile de France.

He received his Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, and worked as percussionist and timpanist in orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony and Oslo Philharmonic, among others. Major studies in composition were with Professor Leonard Stein (former director of the USC Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles), William Kraft, Luciano Berio and Jacob Druckman.

Invited in 1987 to the Sundance Film Institute in Utah by Robert Redford and David Newman to develop film music projects, he now composes regularly for European television and Cinema. In 1990, he received a Fulbright Fellowship for composition study in Paris. He began to incorporate new technologies into his works and soon after, was selected to take part in the one year course in composition and computer music at IRCAM, Paris.

Recent happenings include:

Concerts:
Interact-Sound Duo concert with Francois Daudin Clavaud at the Musica y Escena Festival,
Mexico City 2009.

Pianowaves Duo concert with duo partner Susanne Kessel for Olivier Messiaen's 100th birthday. Bonn Cathedral, sponsered by the International Beethoven Festival, 2008. These works for Organ, Piano, and Electronics for performances will be release on CD bt Obst Records, Cologne.
Download the concert review in pdf format, here.

Recordings:
New works for Susanne Kessel, Pianist:

"I Miss You" on the cd entitled, Iceland. Released by Oehms Classics label.

"Fantasie Electro-Acoustique for R.S. & S.K." For Robert Schumann's 200th. anniversary.
Soon to be released released on Obst Records.

Sound installations:
Collaborations with Arik Levy, designer, for Swarovski Crystal Palace, Milan 2009 and at the Slott Gallery, Paris 2010. Articles and sounds concerning these shows can be found here on my weblog:

ArtSenat exhibition in the Luxemborg Gardens, Paris with designer Florence Bost.

"The London Project", an ongoing project with British visual artist Natasha Newton, integrating sound and image.

Artistic direction:
Music consultant for Medici Arts and Ideale Audience for live streaming broadcast of the Aspen Music Festival, 2008.

Artistic director for the new CD of contemporary Mexican music in preparation, "El Horizonte", by the Trio d'Argent.

Film Music:
Music for a feature length documentary, produced by ARTE television, Le Monde Selon Stigliz by Jacques Sarasin and Joseph Stiglitz, nobel prize for economy, 2001. (video)

For more info, music and sound, please visit: www.leonmilo.com