13 Facts About Craig Leon

Craig Leon was born on 7 January 1952 and is an American-born record producer, composer and arranger currently living in England.

Active in pop music production from 1974 to 1998, Craig Leon has focused on classical composition, orchestration, arrangement and recording from 1998 to the present.

Craig Leon's work appears on many classical recordings with artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Andreas Scholl, Sir James Galway, Joshua Bell, The London Chamber Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The London Symphony Orchestra.

Craig Leon was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Fort Myers, Florida.

In New York, Craig Leon produced recordings by Blondie, Richard Hell, Suicide and many other artists connected with the burgeoning New York scene.

In 1981, Craig Leon produced his own first recorded work, "Nommos", which was released on John Fahey's Takoma Records later that year.

In 1998, Craig Leon produced the comeback No Exit by Blondie.

Since 1998, Craig Leon had been exclusively producing, orchestrating and recording classical projects including work with Luciano Pavarotti, Andreas Scholl and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Elysium, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and Sir James Galway.

In 2011 Craig Leon completed the Sony Classical recording of Midwinter's Eve: Music For Christmas featuring his orchestrations and arrangements of Christmas music performed by The London Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Warren-Green.

Craig Leon has turned to work combining audio and visual imagery.

Craig Leon has completed the production of the opening and closing ceremony for the Dubai World Cup 2014 which was broadcast on 29 March 2014.

The latest project released on his Atlas Realisations label distributed through PIAS Classics is The Film Scores and Original Orchestral Music of George Martin, performed by The Berlin Music Ensemble and conducted by Craig Leon which was released on 10 November 2017.

Craig Leon's The Canon: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Volume 2, is an electronic album released on 10 May 2019 on RVNG Intl.