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Premieres prior to 2005:

Azulejos for mixed ensemble. Commissioned by Meet the Composer Music/USA and the National Endowment for the Arts for MOSAIC. LACMA, May 2004

La Tina for solo piano. Commissioned by the Lucy Moses School. Merkin Concert Hall, NYC. March 2004

Hebras d' Luz for solo electric viola. Commissioned and premiered by Martha Mooke. North River Series, Greenwich House Arts. Jan. 2004

Duende for mixed ensemble. Commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung for the Fest der Kontinente in celebration of György Ligeti. Premiered by Kevin Deas, Nueva Generacion Ensemble, Rolando Morales-Matos and percussionists of the Berlin Philharmonic, Tania León, conductor. Berlin, Germany. 2003

Mística, Ursula Oppens, piano, De Paul Concert Hall, Chicago. 2003

Rezos for SATB Choir, text by Jamaica Kincaid. Commissioned by Terry Knowles and Marshall Rutter for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles, CA, 2003

Love After Love, for Soprano and marimba. Poetry by Derek Walcott. Commissioned by Mary Sharp Cronson and Works and Process, Inc., Premiered by Elizabeth Farnum and Tom Kolor. Guggenheim Museum, 2002

Axon for violin and electronics. Commissioned and premiered by Mari Kimura. ISCM World Music Days, 2002. Hong Kong

A Row of Buttons, Commissioned by the New York Treble Singers Text by Fae Myenne Ng, NYC, 2002

Awards and Honors prior to 2006:

Fromm Music Foundation Commission, 2005

Honoree, Cuban Artists Fund, 2005

New York Times review of Tania Leon Portrait Concert at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.

Feature article in Yamaha's "Accent" magazine, Summer 2004

The Nathan Cummings Foundation, 2004

Portraits of Latino Achievement. Exhibition. Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. 2003-

Aaron Copland Fund for Music 2003 Recording Program awarded to Bridge Records for "Music of Tania León"

Coalition of 100 Black Women. 2003

National Women's History Month Honoree, 2003. National Women's History Project

Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, 2003

Arts International, 2002

Meet the Composer Music/USA, 2002

Ph.D. (Honorary), Oberlin College, 2002

National Endowment for the Arts, 2002

Claire and Leonard Tow Professorship, 2000-2004

Events prior to 2008:

2007

An Evening of Music and Dialogue
Tania León - Women in Music Festival 2007

Video highlights of world premiere of "Atwood Songs", interview with Tania León

December 15 - Hudson Valley Philharmonic performs "Bata". Bardavon Opera House. Poughkeepsie, NY.

Nov. 20 - 24 - El Arte de las Mujeres Como Agente de Cambio y Desarollo Social. International Congress of Women in the Arts. la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. See website for program including performance of music by Tania León on Nov. 21.

Nov. 26 - 28 - El Arte de las Mujeres Como Agente de Cambio y Desarollo Social. International Congress of Women in the Arts. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Almagro/Ciudad Real, Spain. See website for program.

Nov. 18 -The Cube Ensemble performs A La Par. Gottlieb Hall, Merit School of Music, Chicago.
Oct. 8 - Martha Mooke performs León's Hebras d'luz for electric viola on her Viola X-Treme concert at the University of Albany, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center. 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY.

Sept. 22 - Philadelphia Music Project (funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts) presents: Hispanos…Many Roots…Many Faces: World premiere of Tabla Raza by Tania León and Arturo O'Farrill with Latin Fiesta, Tabla player Badal Roy, and La Cumbiamba EneYe. Pennsylvania Convention Center. Philadelphia

June 26 - Ipek Eginlioglu, pianist and Justin Wolf, percussion perform A La Par. SUNY Purchase

June 19 - Pianist Adam Kent performs Tumbao live on WQXR (96.3FM) with host David Duval.

June 13 - The New York City Council presents a Proclamation to Tania León for personal achievements that also reflected positively on the College, the borough of Brooklyn, and the city of New York.

June 10 - St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble performs Singin' Sepia. Notable Women Festival: A Celebration of Women Composers. Dia:Beacon, NY.

June 9 - St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble performs Singin' Sepia. Notable Women Festival: A Celebration of Women Composers. Chelsea Art Museum, NYC.
May 18 - Tania León receives Honorary Doctorate from SUNY Purchase. Tania León presented with an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Music from SUNY Purchase.

May 17- Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette perform The Atwood Songs. St. Bartholomew's Church. NYC.

May 9 - Tania León Portrait Concert - performed by Continuum. Americas Society. 680 Park Ave, NYC

April 13 - New Music Miami Festival. Performance of de color for violin and marimba. Florida International University, Miami, FL.

April 11 & 12 -Tania León's Love After Love with poetry by Derek Walcott. New York Festival of Song. Weill Recital Hall, NYC.

March 29 - Marya Martin premieres Alma for flute and piano. The Flute Book for the Twenty-First Century. Presented by Meet the Composer.   Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), NYC

March 28 - "All-León" Concert.   Indigena, Journey, The Atwood Songs & other works. Main Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

March 26 Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront! American Composers Orchestra performs Indigena, Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall), NYC.

March 26 - Women and Music: Looking Back, Looking Forward presents Tania León and Margaret Atwood. Ingle Auditorium, Rochester Institute of Technology.

March 25 World Premiere of The Atwood Songs. Text by Margaret Atwood. Eileen Strempel, Sop. & Sylvie Beaudette, pno. Setnor Auditorium, Syracuse University. Presented by the Society for New Music.

March 25 Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront! American Composers Orchestra performs Indigena, Annenberg Center, Philadelphia.

March 23 - Tania León, Ursula Oppens, Jade Simmons & Brasil Guitar Duo. Pre-concert conversation at 7:30 pm. Concert at 8PM.   Seabury Center, Westport, CT

March 22 - Tania León, Ursula Oppens, Jade Simmons & Brasil Guitar Duo. A part of the Composers Project Series. Symphony Space.
March 20- Music of Tania León. Performed by Ursula Oppens, Jade Simmons & Brasil Guitar Duo. The Century Association. NYC.

March 16 - Cleveland Chamber Symphony performs Sin Normas Ajenas. Westlake United Methodist Church.

March 14 - Cleveland Chamber Symphony performs Sin Normas Ajenas.Trinity Cathedral – Downtown Cleveland Ohio.

March 2- 4 - Guest Composer in Residence. 6th Annual Women in New Music Festival "inner voice". Cal State Fullerton

Feb. 28 - panelist - "A Composer's Career". Whittall Pavilion, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Feb. 22 - Opus 21 performs Toque. GVSU Performing Arts Center, Louis Armstrong Theatre, Allendale, Michigan

Jan. 8 - Sequitur: Music of Cuba. Merkin Concert Hall. Performance includes Toque.

2006

December 22 Music of Tania Leon. Special concert to honor the composer by the Cuban Cultural Center. Weill Recital Hall. NYC.

December 7 An evening of selected chamber music by Tania Leon. Greenwich House Music School, NYC.

November 29 Guest Composer at the Frost Museum. "Wednesday After Hours: Concert and Reception with Tania Leon". 7PM Wertheim Recital Hall, Florida International University.

November 9-14 Featured composer. Inauguration of The Gatehouse, new performance venue, NYC. Works include premiere of Reflections for Soprano and chamber ensemble, Batey, Ritual, Momentum and Tumbao for solo piano and O, Yemanja from Leon's opera "Scourge of Hyacinths"

October 18-19 Resident Composer, Cleveland Institute of Music

October 12-14 Guest Speaker, International Network of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education. Miami Beach Resort and Spa, FL.

September 14 - Pianist Jade Simmons and Percussionist Svet Stoyanov perform A LA PAR at Leonard Nimoy Thalia theatre at Symphony Space, NYC

June 24 - OPUS 21 performs "Toque" at Carnegie Center for the Arts at Three Rivers, Michigan

June 23 - OPUS 21 performs "Toque" at Light Fine Arts Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan opus21.org

June 8 - Voice and Text: A Composer's Language The written word within the context of a musical language is at once powerful yet reveals in its subtle nuances, a familiar vernacular. This program of mixed ensemble pieces highlights the voice as a solo instrument. Drawing on texts by an international array of prominent poets, Tania León adds a notable layer of texture to her compositional process. Joined by an impressive roster of guest singers and instrumentalists, she will focus on the intricate ensemble combination she has selected to interact with the human voice. Aaron Davis Hall, NYC. www.aarondavishall.org

June 2 - Sin normas ajenas. San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Brava Theater Center, San Francisco

May 20 - Tania León's Toque premiered by Opus 21. Tania León's new commissioned work by Opus 21 will receive its premiere at Symphony Space's Thalia Theater on Saturday, May 20. Toque is one of the "Six Multicultural Premieres" performed by the new music ensemble.

March 25, 2006 - June 16, 2006 EXHIBITION TOUR: "Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement" presented by the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. - Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, TX for more info: www.nps.gov/cham/ Take the virtual tour here.

March 16, 17 - Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias conducted by Tania León . Asturias, Spain.

March 15-19 - World Premiere of Variación for solo piano with performances of Ritual, La Tina and Tumbao. Anna Briscoe, pianist. Performance/lecture titled: "Tania León: A Multi-Cultural Synthesis in the Piano Works" presented by James Briscoe. Society for American Music Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

March 11 - "Sorpresa" for solo piano. Gabriela Perez Acosta, pianist. X Encuentro Internacional/VI Encuentro IberoAmericano de Mujeres en el Arte. Mexico-Bilbao.

Press Release March 2006

2005:

Press Release December 2005

December 14 - Telemundo Ch. 47. Tania León Interviewed by Odalys Molina on "Noticiero del Mediodia". Channels 47 (New York), 51 (Miami), 44 (Chicago), 39 (Dallas), 52 (Los Angeles).

December 8 - The Albany Symphony Orchestra's Spiritual Project: Part II. Premiere of Tania Leon's arrangement of "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel". Canfield Casino, Saratoga Springs, (Dec. 9) Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY, (Dec. 10) First United Methodist Church, Pittsfield, PA

October/November - Tania León Visiting Professorship at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

November 4 - Performance of Satine. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

October 29, 30 - Fargo-Moorhead Symphony conducted by Tania León. Festival Concert Hall NDSU. www.fmsymphony.org

October 28 - Sound Field 05: Chicago New and Experimental Music Festival. Performance of Satine. Piano Forte Chicago. 410 S. Michigan Ave. www.soundfield.org

October 11 - Da Camera of Houston performs Love After Love. the Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross. www.dacamera.com

September 29 - Tania León Piano Works: The Composer’s Sonic Environment. Deepening the experience of her WaterWorks residency, Ms. León explores the composer’s approach to the piano from a percussive point of view. Renowned pianists, Ursula Oppens and Jade Simmons unite to explore Ms. León’s piano works: Momentum, an intense and highly personal take on the blues (León’s first solo piano composition), Mistica, with its virtuosic pyrotechnics, the salsa-based Tumbáo, dedicated to Celia Cruz and Satine, a work for two pianos infused with indigenous Cuban Rhythms.

September 22 - Cuban Artists Fund Benefit Gala honoring Tania León. www.CubanArtistsFund.org

September 22 - Pianist Jay Gottlieb performs Ritual. L'Archipel, Paris, France. www.larchipel.net

June 24-Airi Yoshioka performs Axon. “Feminist Theory and Music 8” Conference at Elebash Hall, Graduate Center. City University of New York

June 8- Chamber Players of the LEAGUE/ISCM performs Paisanos Semos. Elebash Hall, Graduate Center. City University of New York

May 31 - Fulcrum Point New Music Project performs Indigena. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Dr., Chicago.

May 20 - "Break it Down". A performance workshop that "breaks down' the elements of the art form. Tania León illustrates syncretic ideas in composition through her work Batey. Aaron Davis Hall, NYC. www.aarondavishall.org

May 13 - Philadelphia Music Project presents “Composers’ Voices: Crossing Disciplines & Cultures” Panel including Tania Leon, Robert Ashley, Fred Ho, Mikel Rouse, Bright Sheng

April 25 - May 8 - Resident Composer at the John Duffy Composers Institute. Virginia Arts Festival. www.vafest.com

April 15 & 16 - Tania León conducts "Shangri La". Music by Susie Ibarra, Libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa. The Kitchen. 512 W. 19th St., NYC www.thekitchen.org

April 14- Momentum. The 2005 New Music Miami ISCM Festival. Florida Internation University Wertheim Performing Arts Center.

April 10-Momentum . ArtSouth Ensemble. Miami Lakes United Methodist Church. Miami Lakes, FL

April 9 - Momentum and Rituál. Jose Lopez, pianist. Sanctuary of ArtSouth, 240 N. Krome Ave, Homestead, FL.

April 6 - Members of Son Sonora perform String Quartets of George Walker. Post-performance discussion with Walker and Tania Leon. 651 Arts. BRIC Studio. 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY www.651arts.org

March 18 - Hechizos. Schönberg Ensemble. Reinbert de Leeuw, Dir. Nieuwe Kerk. Den Haag.

March 17 - Hechizos. Schönberg Ensemble. Reinbert de Leeuw, Dir. Theatre Lantaren/Venster. Rotterdam.

March 16 - Aguava New Music Studio performs Batey. The Library of Congress. Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building. Washington, DC.

March 16 - Hechizos. Schönberg Ensemble. Reinbert de Leeuw, Dir. Lux. Nijmegen.

March 15 - Hechizos. Schönberg Ensemble. Reinbert de Leeuw, Dir. Paradiso. Amsterdam.

March 14 - Hechizos. Schönberg Ensemble. Reinbert de Leeuw, Dir. Musis Sacrum. Arhem. Netherlands.

March 14 - Chicago Symphony presents MusicNow "Pierre Boulez's 80th Birthday Celebration". León's Rituál and Mistica performed by pianist Amy Dissanayake. 8PM. The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance. www.cso.org

March 11-13 - Southern Crossroads. Music Director and composer of "Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known". Collaboration with and Poetry by Wole Soyinka. Choreography by Peter Badejo. Performances include inauguration of the Shaw Center for the Performing Arts, Baton Rouge, LA.

March 3-5 - panelist. In Celebration of William L. Dawson: An Exploration of African American Music and Identity at the Dawn of the 21st Centruy. Emory Conference Center. Atlanta, GA.

March 3 - BBC Symphony recording and performances of "Kabiosile" for piano and orchestra. Ashley Wass, pianist, Grant Llewellyn, conductor. London, England

Februrary 5 - Tania León conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, France. Works by Adams, Sondheim, Ellington and León. Opera de Marseille.

January 30- The Ritz Chamber Players perform Oh Yemanja. Weigel Auditorium. Ohio State University.

December 18, 2004 - March 13, 2005 "Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement"

History Center - Fort Wayne Historical Society, Fort Wayne, IN

2004:

December 1, 4 - Tania León conducts the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. City Center, NYC.

Winter 2004 - Documentary featuring Tania León entitled "Life Profiles". Produced by MITICO, Buenos Aires, Argentina

September 4-November 28 - "Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement". Mexican Heritage Plaza. San Jose, CA Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives

November 22 - Tania León conducts ConTempo Ensemble. Levenson Concert Hall. Brooklyn College NY.

November 14 - Panel on Cultural Influences. Graduate Center, CUNY.

November 6 - "Composer Portrait: Music of Tania León". Featuring MOSAIC. Miller Theatre, Columbia University.

October 14 - Sarah Cahill performs works by León, Adams, Rzewski. Nuovi Spazi Musicali, 25th Festival di Musica Contemporanea. Accademia Americana. Rome, Italy.

October 19 - Tania León conducts the New York University Symphony. Works by Haydn and Stravinsky and Prokofiev. Frederick Loewe Theatre.

October 8 - "O Beautiful" concert of American Music, including León, Bolcom, Ellington, Glass and more by the Western Wind Ensemble. The North Universalist Chapel Society of Woodstock, VT.

October 7 - Pianist Sarah Cahill performs works by León, Adams, Rzewski and others. Berkeley Arts Festival. www.SarahCahill.com

October 5 - Lecture on the music of Tania León. Black Box Theatre, NYU.

October 1 - Son Sonora performs works by Singleton, Bolcom and León. 7 PM. University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

September 23 - Panel discussion hosted by Margo Jefferson (NY Times) with Bill T. Jones, Tania León, Roger Guenveur Smith

and Sekou Sundiata. Aaron Davis Hall.

September 19 - Sarah Cahill performs Mistica. San Francisco.

July 30 - NODUS performs "Momentum". Miami Art Central, FL.

July 20-25 - Scourge of Hyacinths workshop at Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. Directed by Robert Wilson.

July 17-19 - Son Sonora Ensemble at National Black Arts Festival. Atlanta, GA. www.nbaf.org

July 1-31 - Guest of the Month. (Profile). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website. www.soyunica.org

June 23 - Salon 651: Son Sonora Ensemble. Tania Leon, Music Director. 651 Arts, BRIC Studio, Brooklyn, NY.

June 16, 19-"Oh Yemanja" (Mother's Aria). Continuum. International Music Festival, Mongolia, China.

May 11 - "Oh Yemanja" (Mother's Aria). Continuum. Mario Davidovsky 70th Birthday Tribute. The Americas Society, 680 Park Ave

May 14 - The Western Wind presents "O Beautiful" American music including music of Tania Leon. Friends Meeting House, NYC, 15 Rutherford Place

May 3 - World Premiere of "Azulejos". The Mozambique Project, concert version of Leon's dance/music collaboration with choreographer Donald Byrd, Mosaic and the National Song and Dance Theater of Mozambique. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.

March 14 - Mari Kimura performs "Axon" at Dance Theatre of Harlem's Open House.

March 15 - Speculum Musicae plays "Arenas d'un Tiempo" at Merkin Concert Hall.

March 18 - Performance of "De Memorias" by Imani Winds. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, "Double Exposure" series. Rose Studio, NYC.

March 21 - World Premiere of "La Tina" for Lucy Moses School young pianists. Merkin Concert Hall, NYC.

February 9 - Performance of "Axon" by Mari Kimura, Frederick Loewe Theatre, New York University, NYC

January 13 - La Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid (ORCAM), Spain. Works by Ibarra, Rachmaninoff, Haydn. Tania León, conductor

January 15 - World Premiere of solo electric viola work for Martha Mooke. Greenwich House Music School, NYC.

2003:

December 3-13 - Conductor. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. City Center, NYC.

December 4 - Satiné performed by piano duo "Quattro Mani", Weill Recital Hall, NYC

October 23 - Honoree. Coalition of 100 Black Women. The Schomburg Center, NYC.

October 16 - Sony Music Arts in the Atrium with the Imani Winds.

October 9 - Radio Interview. Black Beat, host Flo Wiley. WHCR 90.3 FM

October 2 - Panel Discussion. College Music Society annual conference. Hotel Inter-Continental, Miami, FL

September 27 - World Premiere of Duende by members of the Berlin Philharmonic, U.S. percussionists and Baritone. Commissioned by the Fest der Kontinente 2003, Berlin, Germany. Tania León, conductor

August 16 - Panelist "Janacek and Music Today", Bard Music Festival 2003. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

June 24-July 26 - Civitella Ranieri, Resident Composer, Umbria, Italy

May 25 - Bailarín, Musee des Beaux-Arts d'Orleans, Orleans, Frankreich. Paul Bowman, guitar.

May 21 - Bailarín, Eastern Mediterranean, University, Zypern, Turkey. Paul Bowman, guitar.

May 17 - Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, France. Works by Bernstein, Gershwin and León. Tania León, conductor. Bonita Hyman, mezzo-soprano

May 11 - Mística, Cuban Premiere. (First performance of León's works in Cuba) Basilica San Francisco de Asis, Havana, Cuba. Ursula Oppens, piano

May 8 - Horizons, East Coast Premiere. Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA. Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, Music Director

April 30 - Mística, World Premiere. De Paul Concert Hall, Chicago. Ursula Oppens, piano

April 25 - Bailarín, Paul Bowman, guitar. Tenri Cultural Center, NY.

April 2-6 - Tania León Interdisciplinary Symposium. DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana

April 5 - Axon, Mari Kimura, vn & computer, Juilliard Clark Theater, NY.

March 18 - Rezos, New York Premiere by the L.A. Master Chorale, Riverside Church, New York

March 8 - Rezos, World Premiere by the L.A. Master Chorale, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California

February 14 - Love After Love. Lauren Flanigan, sop. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

February 8 - Oh Yemanja. Anne Marie Ketchum, sop. Harbeson Hall, Pasadena City College, CA