About Me
Composer-conductor Leanna Sterios-Primiani is a native of California. She has just completed her DMA in composition at USC. She has received many awards and performances of her music throughout the United States and Europe, including the premiere of Sirens for Orchestra by Leonard Slatkin and the Nashville Symphony in February 2009. Other performances include scenes from her opera Truman presented at the Virginia Arts Festival in 2008, Underwood New Music Reading by the American Composers Orchestra in New York, Poems Dugan for Voice and Piano, The Truman Project performed in Los Angeles and the Opera America national conference in Seattle, sound installations for Pure: A Multi & Mixed Media Exhibition in Brighton, Massachusetts, Parada at the Herrenhaus Edenkoben (Germany), performed by Ensemble Aventure Freiburg and recorded for the SWR (German radio), Variations for solo piano performed at the June In Buffalo New Music Festival, Parada at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen Colorado, Searching for M with Help from a Large Orchestra at the Cabrillo Music Festival in Santa Cruz, California and Heterotic E8xE8 and Type I Superstring for Small Ensemble and Live Electronics at the CCMIX (Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis) in Paris, France.As a conductor, Ms. Primiani currently serves as conductor for the California Opera Association, music director for the Central California Ballet, Music Director for LA Opera’s Demonstration Tour of Figaro’s American Adventure, associate conductor for LA Opera’s production of Judas Maccabeus under Maestro James Conlon, as well as cover conductor for the National Symphony. Before her appointment, she was one of four conductors selected from around the country to participate in The National Conducting Institute, and conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in May, 2006. She has served as music director of the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet in Fort Worth, Texas and has conducted many orchestras throughout the US and Europe including the Ensemble Aventure Freiburg (Germany), National Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Dallas Opera Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Santa Rosa Symphony and Pasadena Symphony, among others. Ms. Primiani’s repertoire is vast and ranges from the standard symphonic and operatic repertoire, as well as specializing in the Twentieth Century symphonic, operatic and ballet masterpieces.
