Tania León (born May 14, 1943 in Havana, Cuba), a vital personality in today’s music scene & desired as a composer & conductor, has been recognized for her important accomplishments as an pedagogue & adviser to arts organizations.

León's opera Scourge of Hyacinths, staged and designed by Robert Wilson with León conducting, has received over Xxii performances inside Germany, Switzerland, France and Mexico. According to the radio play by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka it was commissioned around 1994 per Munich Biennale, where it won a BMW Prize as better newly opera. A aria Oh Yemanja from Scourge was recorded by Dawn Upshaw on her Nonesuch Video "The World So Wide".

León's orchestral operate Desde... was premiered per American Composers Orchestra in March 2001 in Carnegie Hall. Horizons, written for a NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg premiered at the July 1999 Hammoniale Festival, with Peter Ruzicka conducting. Around August 2000, Horizons got its U.S. premiere at a Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Stefan Asbury conducting. León conducted a act by owning a Orchestre Symphonique de Nancy (France) in March 2002.

Drummin', the good-length cross-cultural function for autochthonic percussionists & orchestra, was commissioned and premiered inside 1997 by Miami Light Project and the New World Symphony. It opened a 1999 Hammoniale Festival, Hamburg.

Numerous of León's works keep around been recorded, including Batá, per Foundation Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Snell and produced by Sir George Martin; Indígena, a collection of León’s chamber music; Carabalí on the Louisville Orchestra’s First Edition Records; Rituál, for solo piano, & her arrangement of the Cuban song El Manisero for Chanticleer.

Within 1998 she was awarded a New York Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Honorary Doctorates from Colgate University and Oberlin College and awards from a American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, NYSCA, Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund, ASCAP and Koussevitzky Foundation, among others. Withwithin 1998 she held a Fromm Residency at a Our contries Academy in Rome.

León was the origination member & number 1 Director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem establishing their Music Department, Music School & Orchestra. She instituted a Brooklyn Philharmonic Community Concert Series withwithin 1978 & in 1994 co-founded a U.s. Composers Orchestra Sonidos first state lwhen Americas Festivals as Latin American Music Advisor. From either 1993 to 1997 she was Future Music Advisor to Kurt Masur and the Up to date York Philharmonic.

She has been guest conductor using a Beethovenhalle Orchestra, Bonn, the Gewandhausorchester, Leipzig, a Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome, the National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa, Johannesburg, a Netherlands Wind Ensemble, a Netherlands, and the New York Philharmonic, among others.

Tania León has been a subject of profiles in ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, Univision and independent films.

León was Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, Visiting Professor at Yale University and the Musikschule around Hamburg. Inside 2000 she was named a Towage Distinguished Prof at Brooklyn College, where she has taught since 1985.