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Kevin Leysath II is an award-winning composer and altered saxophonist recognized for his reflective, sensitive, and unique voice in both film and concert music. As the recipient of the 2024 ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Award and the 2023 NSOM Music Composition Award, Kevin’s work spans collaboration with directors and performances with orchestras, always with the goal of telling a story through music. Inspired at age six, when a movie score moved him to tears, he knew he wanted to create music that could evoke deep emotions in others.
Kevin works extensively as a film composer, scoring projects across a wide range of genres. Recent work includes his score for Jordan Betine’s (AFI Fellow) Killer of Men, featuring talking drum performed by Magatte Sow (Black Panther, Sinners); Chad B. Hamilton’s Way Back Home (ASCAP-sponsored); CINEMA RECOMPOSED, in collaboration with Paramount’s Max Fleischer Studios and the American Genre Film Archive; work as part of the music team for National Geographic’s For Winter; and for MatchaMango’s commercial campaign.
Music Reel
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0:50
Sensitivity (specialization)
I Miss You
0:56
Searching for a Sign*
1:26
Watch Over Us
0:35
The Things We Carry*
0:39
Unalive
2:47
Not Myself
1:12
Keeping Her Spirit Alive
1:50
Altered Sax (psychological/thriller) (specialization)
Escape From Infinity
0:56
Not Today
3:44
Cognition of Dystopia *
1:56
Aftermath
0:29
Red Cyan (Drone Sax Improv)
1:00
Test Facility
0:38
Comedy
Oh Really?
0:46
Lets Think About This
0:25
Lonely
1:14
Confusion
0:35
Distant Love
1:05
Sneaking Around
0:33
Journeys(Epic)
Door of Return*
0:50
Beauty in the Wild
0:41
Saint Lucian Robbery (Chase Scene)
1:01
Luminara
1:13
Beyond the Headlines
1:06
More About Me!
He has conducted ensembles ranging from Brass Octet to Full Orchestra. Worked with the Nazareth University Wind Symphony with pieces such as Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Carmina Burana by Carl Off, American Elegy by Frank Ticheli and with New York University Orchestra on Manuel de Falla’s, El Sombrero de Tres Picos and the VCS Orchestra. Recording Session Conductor for NYU Screen Scoring and Concert Composition. He also participated and was coached during Amy Andersson's SCL conducting intensive.
Kevin’s concert works have been performed by groups such as the NYC Brass Choir, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Nazareth University Wind Symphony, NU Saxophone Society, McDuffie Center for Strings, Cordancia Chamber Orchestra, Uconn Saxophone Quartet, Bernadette Quartet, and the Irondequoit String Orchestra.