Maria eugenia leon

María Eugenia León owns a Professional Music Certificate, specialty of Piano, from Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias (Spain) as well as has had the opportunity to study voice with Soprano Wessela Zlateva (based in Vienna). She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the prestigious Berklee College of Music (Boston) after receiving a European Tour Scholarship; where she focused in Film Scoring, Classical Composition and Orchestral Conducting.

For many years, she's been working as assistant conductor and pianist accompanist at the SMMUSD Elementary Choirs, including being part of the team for Honor Choir for Stairway to the Stars. With them, she's had the opportunity to premiere her choral compositions, with the school choirs and the Stairway to the Stars Honor Choir; she’s also premiered her choral songs with Elemental Choir, the South Bay Children’s Choir led by Ms. Corallo, and The JAMS Madrigal Singers Choir led by Ms. Blanchard. She received the second prize "Juan José Falcón Sanabria" in the Coral Composition Competition: Concurso de Composición Coral de Canarias, II Edition. It's also important to mention the commission of her piece "Duerme" by Mezzo Soprano Blanca Valido, who premiered the piece and won the first prize in the "María Orán" Competition Award.

In her orchestral composing, she’s been able to work with the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra as she won the Inaugural Orchestral Composition Award for Female Composers From the Canary Islands with her piece “Busca la Alegría”, with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as one of the selected composers of the Composer Filmmaker Accelerator Program at the Vancouver International Film Festival, with the Orquesta Comunitaria de Gran Canaria (OCGC), premiering her work “Puentes” for choir and orchestra; and the New York Zone 3 Full Orchestra led by Mr. Morales, where her work “Busca la Alegría”, had its US premiere.

Her film scores have received recognition with awards and nominations in many festivals, including: Jerry Goldsmith Awards, International Sound & Film Music Festival, Fimucinema (Fimucité) Festival, the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, the Hollywood Independent Music Awards, among others. It’s important to denote the Award Excellence for Original Score at the Depth Of Field International Film Festival, for her music in the short films “Sleep” and “LAPSO”. Her films have visited Cannes Short Film Corner, Outfest LA, LALIFF, The Hollywood Chinese Theater, etc. And her concert music has visited the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Mendelssohn Haus (Germany), Museum of Cosmos and Science in Tenerife, and more.

She has had the chance to work in the conducting field with the Pacific Palisades Symphony and Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, among others.