Composer
Variety’s Jon Burlingame says, “One of the most remarkable TV-movie scores of the past season... I was so impressed with her music... I look forward to more work by this talented composer.”
Variety’s Jon Burlingame says, “One of the most remarkable TV-movie scores of the past season... I was so impressed with her music... I look forward to more work by this talented composer.”
Santa Monica-based composer and Arturia Artist Leanna Primiani's compositions range from large-scale orchestral works to bespoke electronic tracks with performances from Carnegie Hall to NPR’s Performace Today. Her musical voice can be compared to Lele Marchitelli /The Young Pope, Marco Beltrami/Scream, Michael Ables/Get Out, Hauschka/All Quiet on the Western Front, and Devs/Ben Salisbury.
A featured NPR and Apple Music Classical composer, Leanna won a Toulmin Commission from the League of American Orchestras, ROCO, and The American Composers Orchestra to compose Neither Man Nor Money Validate My Worthfor Chamber Orchestra, a tone poem dedicated to the survivors of human trafficking. This work was featured several times on NPR's Performance Today with over 2 million listeners nationwide.
Leanna's training as a classical composer and her fluency in composing for orchestra, coupled with her talents in electronic synthesis give her an advantage few other composers can boast of when scoring for media. Project highlights include Lifetime’s BAD franchise (McKenna Grace, Rob Lowe, Melissa Joann Hart), Fantasia FF runaway hit experimental horror short Ivory Wave, WIF/Fox Searchlight production of Signal, the award-winning feature documentary Altitude Not Attitude. Performances of her classical catalog include Carnegie Hall, Omaha Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, ROCO, American Composers Orchestra, and Bang On A Can Music Festival at MASS MoCA, among many others.
Leanna holds a DMA in composition from USC and is a voting member of the Recording Arts Academy, and Television Academy. She is a member of BMI, New York Women Composers, The Alliance of Women Film Composers, and The Society of Composers and Lyricists. Please visit leannaprimiani.com for more information.