Leonardo Balada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leonardo Balada

Spanish composer

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1933

Place of Birth: Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, university teacher, musicologist

Nationality: Spain, United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Leonardo Balada Ibáñez (born September 22, 1933, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works.
After studying piano at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona, Balada emigrated to the United States in 1956 to study at the New York College of Music on scholarship.
He left that institution for the Juilliard School in New York, from which he graduated in 1960.
He studied composition with Vincent Persichetti, Alexandre Tansman and Aaron Copland, and conducting with Igor Markevitch.
In 1981, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Since 1970 he has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.