Leslie Ann Leytham | mezzo-soprano | performance artist | music and voice instructor
4526 ½ Georgia Street, San Diego, CA 92116 | (702) 325-3479 | leslieleytham@gmail.com
EDUCATION
University of California San Diego
Doctor of Musical Arts, Contemporary Music Performance
Janos Négyésy, advisor
The Boston Conservatory
Master of Music, Voice Performance
Voice with Dr. Rebecca Folsom
Acting with Sanford Sylvan
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Bachelor of Music, Applied Voice
Voice with Dr. Carol Kimball
Acting with Christine Seitz
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Private Vocal Instructor
Associate Instructor, UCSD Extension School
Singing 1
Associate Instructor, UCSD
MUS15: The Music of Michael Jackson
MUS15: Teen Pop, Image is Everything
Teaching Assistant, UCSD
MUS15: Hip Hop
MUS14: Contemporary Music History
MUS15: Banda and Norteño
MUS115: Women in Music
MUS15: Michael Jackson
MUS4: History of Western Music
Music Curator, San Diego Museum of Art Summer Salon Series
UCSD Music Concert Committee
Founding member of Guerilla Opera Company, Boston
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Full residency and stipend, UCSD
The Boston Conservatory Music Scholarship
Millennium Scholarship
UNLV Music Department Scholarship
www.leslieleytham.com 2009-2015
2005-2007
2000-2005
2003-present
2012-present
Fall 2013
Summer 2013
Spring 2014, ‘12
Winter 2014
Spring 2013
Winter 2013, ‘12
Fall 2012
Fall 2011
July 2012
2010-2012
2007-2009
2009-2015
2006-2007
2000-2005
2000-2005
Leslie Ann Leytham | mezzo-soprano | performance artist | music and voice instructor
4526 ½ Georgia Street, San Diego, CA 92116 | (702) 325-3479 | leslieleytham@gmail.com
OPERA AND THEATER PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Erwartung und Traumverlust by Martin Hiendl
Glottalopticon @ Space4Art, San Diego
February 2014
UCSD
January 2012
UCSD, world premiere
January 2010
Solo opera for wordless voice, electronics and instruments
Installation performance designed by Micki Davis and Leslie Ann Leytham
Role played: Kesa
L’Origine des Espèces by Georges Aperghis
Glottalopticon @ Space4Art, San Diego
October 2013
Chamber opera for 5 female voices and speaking cellist
Installation performance designed by Nichole Speciale
Role played: contralto
Not I by Samuel Beckett
Glottalopticon @ Space4Art, San Diego
August 2013
UCSD
January 2011
One act play for female mouth
Installation performance designed by Leslie Ann Leytham
Role played: mouth
Winter’s Child (excerpt) by Ellen Reid
The Industry, Los Angeles
May 2013
Performance in partnership with Wild Up Ensemble
Chamber opera for coloratura soprano, contralto, chorus, instruments and electronics
Concert version produced by Yuval Sharon
Role played: sister
Waywards by Robert Pierzak
UCSD, world premiere
January 2012
Solo opera for female vocalist, offstage male voice and electronics
Designed by Micki Davis
Staged by Meghann Welsh
Role played: woman
To Be Sung by Pascal Dusapin
UCSD, west coast premiere
May 2010
Chamber opera for 4 female voices and instruments
Designed and staged by Susan Narucki
Role played: alto
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Boston Stage Company
January 2009
Dramatic play for small ensemble cast
Designed and staged by Marco Carneiro
Role played: Mrs. Van Daan
No Exit by Andy Vores
Guerilla Opera Company, world premiere
April 2008
Chamber opera for SATB voices and instruments
Designed and staged by Sally Stunkel
Role played: Inez
www.leslieleytham.com Leslie Ann Leytham | mezzo-soprano | performance artist | music and voice instructor
4526 ½ Georgia Street, San Diego, CA 92116 | (702) 325-3479 | leslieleytham@gmail.com
The Heart of a Dog by Rudolph Rojann
Guerilla Opera Company, world premiere
Chamber opera for SATB voices and instruments
Designed and staged by Sally Stunkel
Role played: Marfa
The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten
The Boston Conservatory
Chamber opera for octet and instruments
Designed and staged by Kirsten Cairns
Role played: Bianca
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten
The Boston Conservatory
Large ensemble opera with orchestra
Designed and staged by Sanford Sylvan
Role played: Puck
ORATORIO AND CONCERT PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Canti della Tenebra by Beat Furrer
UCSD, American premiere
Song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano
Melancholie op. 13 by Paul Hindemith
János Négyesy’s Soirée for Music Lovers
Chamber work for mezzo-soprano and strings
Messiah by George Friedrich Handel
La Jolla Symphony
Oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra
still getting rid of by Nicholas Deyoe
La Jolla Symphony, world premiere
Song cycle for coloratura soprano, mezzo-soprano and orchestra
An Index of Metals
UCSD
Chamber work for voice, mid-sized ensemble and electronics
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
www.leslieleytham.com September 2007
January 2007
January 2006
May 2014
October 2013
December 2012
February 2012
May 2011