Tania Justina León (b. 1943) is featured at AfriClassical.com and has a web site at http://www.tanialeon.com/
Feb. 10, 2015
Composers Now, a
month-long, New York City-wide festival that features diverse works by
living composers, recently received a grant from the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund Distinguished Professor Tania León of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music is the artistic director of the festival.
"Many people can listen to a piece of music and have no idea who
wrote it. I want to bring visibility to the composers," says León, the
first musician to play piano with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. "My hope
is to make audiences much more knowledgeable about the art of
composition."
Composers Now officials call the grant transformative and say that it
will allow for expansion of current programs and personnel and for the
possibility of new initiatives. The festival honors living composers,
the diversity of their voices, and the significance of their
contributions to the cultural fabric of society.
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