Leandro was born in Brazil and he has been composing, orchestrating and arranging to the Music Industry for the last fifteen years. In 2011, he was awarded by APCA (Paulista's Association of Art's Critics) as the "Composer Revelation of the Year". He has studied with great mentors since the beginning of his education. Among them, it is included the Brazilian pianist Antonio Bezzan, the Hollywood orchestrators Scott Smaley and Conrad Pope and the Hollywood composer Christopher Young. He also studied the Composition Course Equal Interval System (EIS) with the composers David Blumberg, Ardell Hake and Glenn Jordan.  For more than three years he has undertaken and produced the TV Talk Show "Trilhando Clássicos" which is responsible for the biggest collection of interviews with renowned Brazilian classical musicians.

 

After being a finalist of Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest for Emerging Composers (2014), with his composition for "Sebastian's Voodoo", he was called to be a judge for next three years of the contest. He also beta-tested for companies like ProjectSam, Pianoteq, Synful Orchestra, Chris Hein and Audio Grocery.