David Ari Leon

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David Ari Leon
David Ari Leon at Comic-Con speaking on a panel of composers in San Diego, July 2012.
David Ari Leon at Comic-Con speaking on a panel of composers in San Diego, July 2012.
Background information
Born (1967-12-12) December 12, 1967 (age 56)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation(s)Composer, musician, songwriter
Years active1990–present
LabelsVitamin Records, SoundMind Music
WebsiteSoundMindMusic.com

David Ari Leon (born December 12, 1967) is an American composer, musician and music supervisor.[1][2] He is best known for writing and supervising music for Marvel Entertainment on titles including Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk.[3] He is a songwriter on the themes to the Marvel series Avengers and Super Hero Squad,[4] and he composed the main title music to the shows Xyber 9 and Mr. Bill Presents.[3]

Featured music

Leon was featured as a musician on NPR's syndicated programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered in seven episodes between the years 2005 to 2017.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

He was also featured on the album "Rockabye Baby! Baby's Favorite Rock Songs,"[12] which was available exclusively at Starbucks March 23 – April 19, 2010. The album reached #3 on Billboard's Kids Albums chart,[13] #18 on the Billboard Independent Albums,[14] and #111 on the Billboard Top 200.[15] It contains a version of the Rolling Stones song Ruby Tuesday that Leon performed and produced for the Rockabye Baby! series,[16] which also features the artists Björk, Journey and Kanye West.

Education and early career

College

In 1990, Leon received a B.A. degree from UCLA in music composition, where he focused on piano performance, film scoring and electronic music production. While attending the university, he did internships with Academy Award nominated composers, Mark Isham and Danny Elfman, the latter of which resulted in Leon's first feature film credit on the Clive Barker movie, Nightbreed.[3] Immediately following his completion of university, Leon worked on Days of Our Lives, garnering him an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Music Director."[17]

Marvel and Fox

In 1994, Leon began working for New World, the parent company of Marvel at that time, as Music Director and composer on the TV series Valley of the Dolls.[3] The following year (1995) was the start of his work for Marvel as composer and music supervisor on the show Spider-Man, along with other titles for Fox Kids.[3]

Leon subsequently held a Vice President of Music title for Fox from 1997 to 2002. During that time, he received music supervisor credits on many film and television projects for Fox such as the movie "Les Miserables" starring John Malkovich and the primetime series "State of Grace," starring Frances McDormand.[3]

Recent works

More recently, Leon performed and arranged songs for a series of albums on Vitamin Records by artists including Neil Young, The Cure, R.E.M. and Pink Floyd.[18][19] In 2009, he began writing and supervising music for a series of Motion Comics for Marvel, starting with The Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon.[20] In 2011, the movie Thor: Tales of Asgard released, a co-production by Marvel and Lions Gate, which Leon music supervised.[3] Starting in 2011 and currently going through 2017, while continuing his TV music work on the Emmy winning ABC show Sea Rescue and the Emmy nominated ABC show The Wildlife Docs, Leon also currently scores music for popular titles for EA and other interactive companies. Games with Leon's music include hit titles such as Contre Jour,[21] Superman[22] and Woody Woodpecker,[23] which garnered Leon a Hollywood Music in Media Award nomination for his original score to the title.[24]

References

  1. ^ "New York Times". NYTimes.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  2. ^ "All Music Guide". AllMusic.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Internet Movie Database". IMDB.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  4. ^ "The Super Hero Squad Show". Answers.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  5. ^ "NPR, Morning Edition: June 29, 2005". NPR.org. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  6. ^ "NPR, Morning Edition: Aug. 29, 2005". NPR.org. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  7. ^ "NPR, Morning Edition: July 31, 2007". NPR.org. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  8. ^ "NPR, Morning Edition: Dec. 31, 2008". NPR.org. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  9. ^ "NPR, Morning Edition: Aug. 19, 2010". NPR.org. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  10. ^ "NPR, Morning Edition: Apr. 6, 2012". NPR.org. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  11. ^ "NPR, All Things Considered: Nov. 17, 2015". NPR.org. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  12. ^ "Album Credits Profile". AlbumCredits.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  13. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/kids-albums
  14. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/independent-albums?begin=11&order=position
  15. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/billboard-200?begin=101&order=position
  16. ^ "David Ari Leon at AllRovi". AllRovi.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  17. ^ "Awards Page: Internet Movie Database". IMDB.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  18. ^ "Artist Page: David Ari Leon". Billboard.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  19. ^ "David Ari Leon at Amazon". Amazon.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  20. ^ "Marvel Debuts 'Astonishing X-Men' Music Video". TheFlickCast.com. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  21. ^ "Contre Jour HD: A Wonderful Puzzler". USA Today. September 8, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
  22. ^ "Superman Review". 148 Apps. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  23. ^ "Woody Woodpecker Arrives on iOS Devices". Electronic Theatre. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  24. ^ "HMMA 2012 Visual Media Nominees". Retrieved January 17, 2012.

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