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Mary Jane Leach is a composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties, and how they interact with space. Her music has been performed throughout the world in a variety of settings, as well as in collaboration with dance and theatre artists. She is an accomplished performer in her own right who has been presented across the United States and Europe, and her works have been performed by many eminent soloists and chamber ensembles, most recently in Europe by the Flemish Radio Choir, La Gioia, the London Concord Singers, and Vox Feminae (Switzerland). In recent years Leach has received considerable acclaim for her choral music, which is featured on two CD releases on the XI and New World labels. Drawing on inspirations as diverse as Monteverdi, Bruckner, and 14th century Ars Nova, these pieces "enliven a choral repertoire starved for good contemporary work." (Village Voice). Several are published by C.F. Peters. She has received commissions/awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, Danish Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and many other funders. In 1995 Leach was selected for a prestigious grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, which was established by Jasper Johns and John Cage to support innovative artists in the performing arts. She will be a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the Spring Term of 2008.
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