Neil Leonard

"I draw on earlier experiences playing with jazz musicians to use the computer to complement the verve with which we perform ... The past, present, and future belong to the same impulse: playing a guaguanco, blues or performing with a microprocessor are part of the same work."

Neil Leonard is a composer and performer working with saxophone and live electronics.

Leonard was featured composer at VI Jornadas de Informatica y Electronica Musical (Madrid), Banff Festival for the Arts (Canada), International Computer Music Convention (Montreal), Muestra Musical de Siglo XX University of Puerto Rico, Alternative '97 Moscow, and Festiwal Audio Art, Krakow (Poland). In the US, his works have been performed at the Knitting Factory, Roulette, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, and Interpretations Series. As saxophonist, he has performed with Afrocuba, Boston Ballet, Juan Blanco, Bakida Carrol, Robin Eubanks, Frank Lacy, Victor Lewis, Joe Maneri, Odean Pope, Badal Roy, Emiliano Salvador, Marvin 'Smitty' Smith, and Steve Swallow. He has collaborated extensively with visual artists Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tony Oursler and Constance DeJong, with works exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Biennial in New York.

Neil Leonard lives in Boston, teaches at Berklee College of Music, and travels widely as composer and performer.