Countdown 4…Leandro – Last Season

Note:  Eduardo’s audition concert took place on April 13, 2024

Eduardo Leandro is also a candidate under consideration as GBS’ new Music Director.  Not a stranger to the GBS stage, he was principal guest conductor leading the orchestra through our 78th season in programs that range from Mozart and Beethoven through Prokofiev, Debussy and Ginastera, all the way up to Schonfield and Bernstein. He championed music education through community outreach, connecting with Bridgeport’s diverse, underserved students as a Brazilian-born musician who speaks five languages fluently.

Leandro studied with the late Maestro Gustav Meier, who for more than four decades led the Greater Bridgeport Symphony.  Among his extensive list of current positions is associate music professor at Stony Brook University in New York and teaching percussion at the University of Montreal in Canada, conductor of the New York New Music Ensemble and percussionist with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.

Eduardo has conducted Camerata Aberta in Brazil, Talea and Sequitur Ensembles in the United States, Ensemble Lemanic in France, and the New Music Ensembles in the conservatories of Geneva and Lausanne. He recently served as the music director for the premiere of “The Scarlet Professor”, an opera composed by Eric Sawyer and produced by the Five Colleges Consortium. He has conducted chamber music concerts at Radio France in Paris, in Milan and Torino with MDI and Sentieri Musicali, at Pacific Rim Music Festival in California, and at Festival Archipel in Switzerland.