Composer Gustavo Leone is a Professor Emeritus of Music at the Department of Fine and Performing Arts of Loyola University Chicago. His principal composition teachers included Gerardo Gandini, Marta Lambertini, Ralph Shapey, Shulamit Ran, and John Eaton. He also studied electronic music with Howard Sandroff. Leone received a Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Art and Letters. His music is included in the catalogs of Theodore Front Music Literature, C.F. Peters, New York, Toccata Classics, and Naxos Recordings. Ensembles such as Cuarteto Q-Arte, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Grant Park Festival Orchestra, the Symphonic Orchestra of Michoacán, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, amongst others, have played and commissioned Leone’s works. He has been in residence at the Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, and Teatro Vista. He created and co-directed the Latino Music Festival, produced by the International Latino Cultural Center, for thirteen years.