Eduardo Leandro is a conductor and percussionist who specializes in bringing “new” music’s freshness and excitement to classical and romantic pieces, while bringing classical lyricism and appeal to contemporary music. He conducts the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra, the New York New Music Ensemble, and has also conducted in Brazil, France, Italy, and Switzerland.
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He is a Professor at Stony Brook University for graduate percussion and artistic director of its Contemporary Chamber Players. He has served as regular faculty at Vermont’s Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival and lectured at Peabody Conservatory. He previously taught at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, Universitè de Montreal, and directed the percussion program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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He has performed internationally in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In the U.S. he performs regularly with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, having appeared with Steve Reich Ensemble and Bang on a Can All Stars. His percussion duo, Duo Contexto, served as ensemble-in-residence at the Centre International de Percussion in Geneva for ten years. Recent projects include producing, recording, and mixing the music for mallet instruments by James Wood based on bird songs.
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Eduardo Leandro was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He attended the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands and Yale University. His conducting mentor was Gustav Meier, director of Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra for over four decades.
When not working on music Eduardo engages in bird photography, learning new languages, or making use of his commercial pilot’s license while flying his plane around the Eastern coast.

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