Combining rigorous scholarship with a passion for creative performance approaches, Leslee Wood is a dynamic musician whose work focuses on both music of the distant past and contemporary new music.
Wood is an award-winning composer and sought-after vocalist specializing in medieval, renaissance, and contemporary music. She is the founder of Dulcamara Press, which focuses on publishing previously unavailable performance scores of both historical and contemporary music by marginalized composers.
Combining rigorous scholarship with a passion for creative performance approaches, Leslee Wood is a dynamic musician whose work focuses on both music of the distant past and contemporary new music.
Wood is an award-winning composer and sought-after vocalist specializing in medieval, renaissance, and contemporary music. She is the founder of Dulcamara Press, which focuses on publishing previously unavailable performance scores of both historical and contemporary music by marginalized composers.
Based on the first 1593 Venice edition, edited by Leslee Wood.
Based on sole extant manuscript in a new edition by Marylin Winkle.
Upcoming publications from Dulcamara Press. Rigorously edited and beautifully designed new performance editions.
Collaboration with Municipal Ballet Company
September 29, 2021 Salt Lake City (premiere), October 2 & 3, 2021 Springdale and Zion National Park, UT
Above: excerpt from "Voice of the Canyon", performed by Municipal Ballet Company, directed by Sarah Longoria. Choreography by Olivia Mason. Composed and sung by Leslee Wood with Natalie Hamilton (piano).
Oratorio for mezzo-soprano and tenor soloists, choir, and chamber ensemble. Set to "Complicated" by Tierza Askren.
Premiered by KC VITAs on August 6, 2021 in Kansas City, MO.
Above excerpt: On the Back of the Black mvts 4-6.
Featuring Kirsten Hyde, mezzo-soprano; Josh Donaldson, tenor; Matthew Bennett, violin; Audrey Herren, cello; Christina Webster, flute; Doug Talley, clarinets; Kara Tucker, glockenspiel; Charles Dickinson, piano; KC VITAs conducted by Jackson C. Thomas.
Interview with Leslee Wood (composer in residence) and Jackson Thomas (artistic director) discussing KC VITAs' mission and approach to contemporary choral and vocal music.
Listen HereLive performance by Ignea Strata and interview with Leslee Wood (singer & artistic director) regarding Ignea Strata's program of medieval and renaissance chansons and motets.
Listen HereInterview with Leslee Wood (featured composer) Carrie Page, and Jonathan Kulp about the 2016 International Alliance for Women in Music annual concert at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.