Composer interested in created sound scores for film
Leo Hurley, a recent graduate of the UNC School of the Arts, has gained recognition with commissions and performances spanning the United States, Italy, and Serbia. Leo has had the pleasure of writing for Maya Angelou's 80th Birthday Celebration, Grammy Award winner Pharoah Sanders, Winston-Salem Symphony, Beyond Words Dance Company in an Off-Broadway dance production, Sonnet Repertory Theater Company in an Off-Off-Broadway Musical, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet most notably in the performance at the La Biennale Festival in Venice, Italy, as well as several film productions. This year, Mr. Hurley’s music for the film “ZomRomCom: The Musical” was the winner of a College Television Award. In 2011 Mr. Hurley was chosen by the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino (Turin, Italy) to be showcased on their New Year's Eve Concert and won the North Carolina Symphony String Quartet Competition with his “String Quartet No. 1”. In 2010, he achieved the title of “Iron Composer” at the Cortona Session’s first annual Iron Composer Competition as well as winning the W-S Symphony composition competition for the second time having his work “Mirror Mirror Overture” premiered during the Mary Starling concert series. In 2009, he was awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award for “Zydeco”, a saxophone quartet. Recently, Leo assisted composer Carlisle Floyd on a production of his opera “Susannah” in Bilbao, Spain and continues a mentorship with him as he writes his first opera, Iphis.
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