ABOUT

Leo Grand is a Composer, and Sound Design Artist from Toronto Canada.

His incredibly wide range of musical preferences and influences allow him to draw from, and create a wide variety of pieces. With his style ranging from electronic infused scores, to indie pop and lofi instrumentals, there isn’t many genres Leo has left untouched.

Being new to the world of composition, Leo offers a refreshingly new take in his pieces. With tracks ranging from Orchestral Trap to Ambient Electronic Piano Ballads, his musical scores leave a unique but familiar mark on the projects that they are associated with.

Life

Leo started writing music in his parents basement at the age of 16, after getting garage band on his home computer. From there the obsession began. Hopping from genre to genre, peaked by the curiosity and wonder of how songs were made, Leo traversed his way through high school addicted to trying out different ideas and sitting in front of instruments to learn how they worked.

Music teachers annoyed by his constant obsession for improvising and hunger for more complex pieces, finally placed him in places where he would be satisfied. Leo dove deep into both Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra, eventually playing bass for the Jazz Band and playing bells with his high school’s Orchestra at Massey Hall.

After high school Leo found himself as a beat-maker for local artists in Toronto, producing a unique blend of ambient and electronic hip hop beats. Even with promising leads, and inquiries from artists world wide, Leo’s hunger was left unfed.

Leo applied to Fanshawe’s Music Industry Arts Program to hone and expand his skillset. Fanshawe would be the catalyst that would throw Leo head first into the world of composition and sound design. Expanding sound design from purely synthetic tones to foley, as well as wide variety of hyper realistic creations, Leo found a place, at last, where he felt he could show his skills.

After Fanshawe and a crazy pandemic on the horizon, Leo found himself with a lack of artists to write for and a whole lot of music left in dusty hard drives. With one suggestion from a friend, that all changed. “If you can’t write for artists, write for movies”

From those words a new chapter begun