Biography
Born in Indiana in 1987, John Leszczyński is a music composition and saxophone performance major at Indiana University.
John has studied composition with P.Q. Phan, Claude Baker, and Don Freund; saxophone with Otis Murphy and Tom Walsh, and clarinet with Howard Klug. He was the winner of Indiana University’s 2008 Dean’s Prize for Composition.
As a saxophonist, John won the 2009 Lima Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition playing his own piece, Obsidian Butterfly. He has performed Muczynski’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Ibert’s Concertino da Camera with orchestra.
John has performed as principal saxophonist with Robert Reynolds at Carnegie Hall, Frank Ticheli, Roger Cichy, and others. John frequently premieres new works for saxophone at Indiana University, including his own.
Outside of music, John enjoys spending time outdoors hiking, cycling long distances, and taking photos. His photography has been published multiple times in Labyrinth, the annual Indiana University literary magazine, and he was the winner of the Editor’s Choice in Photography award in 2008.
