Composer. The scene comes first. Always.
Composer and producer. Madrid
Who Leonard is
Music that understands the scene before it sounds.
I was born in Romania in 2001. I moved to Spain at four, and my passion for music began at nine, when I first heard Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in a school class. I knew nothing about music. I didn't understand what I was hearing. But something in that piece grabbed me in a way I couldn't explain, too much happening at once, too much emotion for a kid who didn't have the words to name it. That confusion was the start of everything.
The first thing I asked for was a guitar, because I wanted to be a rockstar. That didn't last long. But one day my father, who played accordion and keyboard at weddings and concerts in Romania, brought home a cheap hundred-euro keyboard he'd seen on sale. When he wasn't playing it, I'd tinker with it, watching tutorials on YouTube. I didn't do it because anyone told me to, I did it because I couldn't stop. So they enrolled me in piano at a school. My teachers saw I was progressing fast and told me I should go to the conservatory. I tried. I didn't get in the first time I applied. I tried again. I got into the Arturo Soria Conservatory in Madrid. First lesson outside the classroom: when something really matters, no is just one more attempt.
There I spent years learning what it really means to understand music: harmony, orchestration, classical piano. In my fifth year I chose the jazz track, and it opened a door I wasn't expecting. I'd been locked into classical. From jazz I got to blues, to Latin jazz, to rhythm and blues, and from there to my roots: traditional Romanian and Eastern European music. I learned that having a solid foundation doesn't lock you in, it gives you the freedom to move through any territory without losing yourself.
During the conservatory I was lucky to find a private teacher with years of real industry experience. Someone who made the difficult look easy, and who talked to me about how the music world actually works, not from books, but from the inside. He was the one who opened the door to the world of film scores for me. That's where everything I do today began.
Composing for picture led me to music production, which I studied at Microfusa Madrid. And around 2020 I started teaching piano, first to fund my training, then because I discovered that teaching is another way of learning, maybe the deepest one.
Today I'm 25 and I've spent sixteen years with music. I've been through the conservatory, production, teaching, and composing for picture. They're not four separate careers, they're four ways of doing the same thing: understanding how music works and putting it in the service of something that matters.
This is the beginning.
A composer. Every decision, direct.
No committee, no stock. If the project needs a specific sonic identity, the next step is to see what Leonard offers and how he works.