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Leon Lee Biography: Leon Leon Lee is currently living moment by moment and observing the rising and passing of each event with equanimity with strong emphasis on learning. Musically, he has taken to the teaching methods of Philip Greenlief and Francis Wong, of which, both provide great insight as teacher, mentor, friend and sage. Lee is the founder and treasurer of Students For Creative Music and Experimental Performance at City College San Francisco where he conducted workshops, organized events, performances, lectures and acquired moneys and performance outlets for younger,novice musicians such as himself. He co-led an ensemble called Bloom which played several shows in the Bay Area, is flutist in the San Francisco Urban Contemporary Music Ensemble with Aaron Bennett, Jeff Chan, Neil Straghalis, Jacob Lindsay and Liz Allbee-Abascal. Lee has also performed his music set to poetry (at 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 @ CCSF, 1998) as well as visual arts (performed The Harmonic Tree @ Chance!, SJSU 1997). Lee is most interested in community,place, the identity of both the individual and the collective as well as working from the perspective of wholism. He admires Eric Dolphy, the buddha Siddhartha Gotama, John Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros, Watazumido-Shuso, Goenkaji, Zussan Kali Fasteau, Charles Mingus, Milford Graves and all the bodhisattvas and arhats in the present and before to just name a few. Lee is always eager to work with new performers and artists in developing an intimate, collective musical language than spans beyond music and into humanity. Work-In-Progress: learning to reconcile the ideal and the actual in living and working to open the heart in reception of life. |