Eduardo Leandro.
Eduardo Leandro has been appointed music director and principal conductor of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony (GBS) in Connecticut. His inaugural concert as music director takes place on May 10 in Bridgeport. Leandro was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and attended Sao Paulo State University, Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands, and Yale University. His conducting mentor was Gustav Meier, music director of GBS for over four decades. Leandro has conducted the New York New Music Ensemble and in Brazil, France, Italy, and Switzerland. He is an associate professor at Stony Brook University (NY) for graduate percussion and artistic director of its Contemporary Chamber Players. He has served as regular faculty at Vermont’s Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival and lectured at Peabody Conservatory. He previously taught at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, Universitè de Montreal, and directed the percussion program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has performed internationally, and in the U.S., he performs regularly with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, appearing with Steve Reich Ensemble and Bang on a Can All Stars. His percussion duo, Duo Contexto, served as ensemble-in-residence at the Centre International de Percussion in Geneva for ten years.
