Leonard Lehrman born in Kansas, on August 20, 1949 Leonard Lehrman was born in Kansas, on August 20, 1949, but grew up in Roslyn, NY, becoming the youngest (and longest) private composition student of Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991). His works number 167 to date, and have been heard throughout Europe, North America, Israel, Australia, and at the United Nations. His setting of Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allan)'s poem "Conscience" for chorus and orchestra won the 2002 Sunrise/Sunset Competition of the Brookhaven Arts Council and was premiered at the Brookhaven Choral Festival with an orchestra of 55 and a chorus of 160 on July 13, 2002. Editor 1999-2002 of Opera Today (the publication of The Center for Contemporary Opera), he has worked professionally for over three decades as conductor, coach, accompanist, translator, stage director, producer and critic for Opera Monthly, WBAI, the Metropolitan Opera, Bel Canto Opera, After Dinner Opera, Aviva Players, the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus and the Jewish Music Theater of Berlin (both of which he founded), and various regional companies throughout the United States, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Since 1987, he has given over 380 concert performances together with soprano Helene Williams, including numerous productions of his own stage works, and concert tours of Europe (7 times), Canada, Hawaii, and Australia. Elie Siegmeister called him "my continuator," while Leonard Bernstein dubbed him "Marc Blitzstein's dybbuk." He has a B.A. cum laude in Music from Harvard, a masters and a doctorate in music composition from Cornell, and a second masters in Library & Information Science from Long Island University, where he runs the Long Island Composers Archive. He also studied privately with Olga Heifetz; Nadia Boulanger (on a Fulbright grant); Erik Werba (in Salzburg and Ghent); Kyriena Siloti (at the Longy School); David Del Tredici, Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner and Lukas Foss (at Harvard); Karel Husa, Robert Palmer and Thomas Sokol (at Cornell); Tibor Kozma, Wolfgang Vacano, Donald Erb and John Eaton (at Indiana); and in the first Performance Seminar in Chamber Music with the Guarneri Quartet. On May 1, 2003 he becomes Minister of Music at Christ Church Babylon, NY, having been Music Director of Community Presbyterian Church in Malverne, NY since Nov., 1992. Founder/Director of The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus and (beginning Jan. 2003) Director of The Oceanside Chorale, since 1989 he has been Founder/Director of the Opera-Musical Theater Special Interest Group of The Naturist Society and since February 2004 Director of the Workmen's Circle Chorus in Manhattan. A member of ASCAP, GEMA, the American Music Center, Society for American Music, the Music Critics Association of North America, the Music Library Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union, he is Artistic Administrator of The Professor Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation, Inc., Co-Founder of the Elie Siegmeister Society, and Archivist Emeritus of The Long Island Composers Alliance, Inc. (of which he was president for 7 years, 1991-98, the longest term in that organization's history.) He is in charge of the Long Island Composers Archive at Long Island University. http://ljlehrman.artists-in-residence.com

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