Gina Leishman

Gina Leishman (* in London ) is a British composer and musician ( saxophone , vocals , piano , harp ).

Leishman studied in Vienna and Edinburgh , specializing in early music . She then worked at EMI Music and founded a theater company before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. On the west coast she founded the "Kamikaze Ground Crew" in 1983 with Doug Wieselman , initially as a wind and percussion troupe for the American music clowns, jugglers and vaudeville entertainers The Flying Karamazov Brothers , who also performed their compositions and from New York City since 1994 operated out. She recorded several albums with the "Kamikaze Ground Crew" and appeared in 2000 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage . In 1994 Leishman's first opera, Burning Dreams, premiered in San Diego ; she wrote another opera, "Actaeon", in 1998 for the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club . Leishman has also written numerous compositions for films and theater projects. She has also written compositions for the Bay Area Jazz Composer's Orchestra , the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic and the Quartetto Aguinaga . Most recently, she presented two albums as a songwriter with her own compositions. She was also recognized as a speaker of audio books.

Leishman has taught at the University of Iowa , Long Island University in Brooklyn, and the University of New York .

Discography

• Gina Leishman Lost in Life
• Kamikaze Ground Crew Covers (with Peter Apfelbaum , Doug Wieselman, Art Baron , Steven Bernstein , Marcus Rojas , Kenny Wollesen )
• Gina Leishman In My Skin (with Charles Burnham , Matt Munisteri , Marc Ribot , Todd Sickafoose, Greg Cohen , Kenny Wollesen)

Web links

• Web presence with discography
• Kamikaze Ground Crew