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@jessieleovJessie is a 24-year old NZ-based composer and musician working freelance in the creative arts.

With a diverse musical background, Jessie was immersed in music during her childhood – being heavily involved in theatre as well as performing in bands and as a solo performer around her hometown of Nelson. Since then she has developed a broad skill set and has had success in a range of areas including songwriting, composing (for screen, and choral and instrumental ensembles), arranging and live performance.

Some of her highlights for 2018 include workshopping her SATB choir piece ‘terrma’ with Karen Grylls and the Auckland Chamber Choir, receiving 2nd place in the University of Auckland’s Songwriter of the Year contest, and having her orchestra piece ‘the wilds’ workshopped and recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington.

Jessie is a long-time barbershop singer and has earned medals at national and international level with her quartet and chorus. She also makes learning tracks and arrangements for barbershop and a cappella vocal groups throughout NZ. Jessie volunteers as a national coordinator for Young Women in Harmony and Young Singers in Harmony NZ, so travels to judge at competitions, to run workshops and oversees the annual national competition in which over 700 students from around NZ compete.

After graduating from the University of Auckland in 2018 with First Class Honours in music composition, Jessie is pursuing opportunities which combine her background in music and sound with her passion for storytelling across different creative mediums. This year she aims to build her portfolio of music for screen, gain further experience in the screen industry and will continue to work on an original musical theatre collaboration with playwright/composer Marlon Richards.

EducationUniversity of Auckland, New Zealand
University of British Columbia, Academic Exchange (2016-2017)
2013-2018Bachelor of Music (Honours) in Composition with First Class Honours
Bachelor of Arts in French
Awards & Achievements
2018Bev Sellers Memorial Scholarship
Sweet Adelines International
Taurus Charitable Trust Postgraduate Scholarship in Music
University of Auckland
Ada Kathleen and Barbara Ellen Watson Scholarship
University of Auckland
Beatrice Ratcliffe Postgraduate Scholarship in Music
University of Auckland
Songwriter of the Year Awards - 2nd Place
School of Music Students Association, The University of Auckland
Selected for the NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composer Awards 
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
2017First in Course Award: Composition (MUS311)
University of Auckland
2016Blues Award - Arts 
University of Auckland
Maxwell Walker Memorial Scholarship
University of Auckland
Pan Pacific 25&Under Youth Quartet Contest - 2nd Place (ZEAL Quartet)
Pan Pacific Youth Harmony Festival
International Rising Star Quartet Contest - 3rd Place (ZEAL Quartet)
Sweet Adelines International
2014First in Course Award: Popular Music Creative Practice & Theory and Aural (MUS280 + MUS284)
University of Auckland
'Seeds of Success' Contest Winner (received grant for musical equipment)
Newstalk ZB and ASB Bank
2013First in Course Award: Popular Music Creative Practice & Theory and Aural (MUS180 + MUS184)
University of Auckland
Songwriter of the Year - finalist for APRA Best Arranger Award and NZ On Air Best Song Award
Popular Music Department, The University of Auckland 
Adastra Foundation Music Scholarship 
Adastra Foundation    
2012Grade 8 Classical Piano (Pass with Merit) 
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
Jubilee Award Scholarship
University of Auckland
Top 17 Finalist in Who Loves Who NZ Cover Song Contest (No Ordinary Thing - Opshop)
Play it Strange 
Top 48 Finalist - Secondary Schools Songwriting Contest (Divine - Jessie Leov)
Play it Strange 

Watch this space for more news on Jessie’s latest musical endeavours.

To hear her original music, visit her soundcloud page.

Check out Jessie’s blog to get the latest updates.

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