Nika Leoni

Composer

Nika Leoni’s music has been characterized as “what modern composition should be – full of emotion and interesting harmonies” and “very much of our time, … direct and approachable.” Nika’s compositions have been performed in New York, Boston, Kansas City, St. Louis, Starkville (MS), and Brussels (Belgium). Her operatic soliloquy "Euridice" was performed at the Opera America Center in New York as part of the Ladies First performance project (2016) and later broadcast on WCNY radio (New York), KNVC (Nevada), and DelMarVa Public Radio (Maryland) as part of Foxtales and Fables on Feminine Fusion show (2019). Recent chamber and vocal pieces include "Prelude in the Steps of Rachmaninov” for cello and piano, performed as part of Festival OSMOSE in Brussels, Belgium (2023) and featured at the Cello Museum in New York (2024), "Two Blake Songs" for voice, clarinet, and viola, "Dance Suite for Two Flutes," which was featured in the October 2021 issue of the Flute Examiner, and "Sentimental Haiku Songs" for SABT choir and piano. Selections from the song cycle "Six Love Songs by Sara Teasdale" were performed by KC VITAs at their 2017 Summer Series in Kansas City and at the 2016 Calliope's Call Concert Series in Boston, as well as by students at Poetry and Song Program at Mississippi State University's Department of Music (2019). Latest commissions included a new song cycle "Floral Impressions" (performed in April 2024), Two Italian Christmas Carols written for The St. Louis Women's Chorale (performed at Christmas on the Hill Concert at St. Ambrose Church in 2019), as well as the music score for an independent full feature film, for which she also composed, recorded, and produced the feature song. Nika's album of her own arrangements of Russian Romances, titled Dark Eyes and released on Larion Records™, received high critical acclaim and is sold in music stores worldwide. More information, music, and reviews can be found at www.NikaLeoniMusic.com