ABOUT

"Bridging the depth of modern symphonic tradition with the emotional pulse of cinema."

 

Sergii Leontiev is a Ukrainian award-winning composer, currently residing in Los Angeles. He successfully works as a film composer, arranger, orchestrator and music producer. Sergii received Lev Revutsky Award (2019) for Film Scores and Symphonic Music. He has been a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists (the SCL) since 2024, American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC) since 2025, the National Composers' Union of Ukraine since 2017 and of the Ukrainian Association of Electroacoustic Music since 2016.

In 2015, Sergii received M. A. in Composition (composition Prof. Igor Shcherbakov, orchestration Prof. Lesya Dychko) and in 2018 completed postgraduate study at the Music Theory Department (scientific advisor, Prof. Mykola Kovalinas) at the National Music Academy of Ukraine.

Sergii authored several research articles dedicated to the musical composition in Hollywood films. He studied film scoring with award-winning composers: Igor Stetsyuk, Alla Zagaykevych, Richard Bellis, Evan Evans, and Michael Price; attended master-classes with Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, Heitor Pereira and Edward Artemiev. He is currently doing work composing music for feature films, documentaries, and animation.

Sergii’s music reflects various genres: chamber and symphonic works, choral miniatures, electroacoustic music, and pop music. His works are performed in the USA, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany,  Poland, Lithuania, China and Ukraine; in the programs of international music festivals. His music sounds on the TV, over the radio, in concert halls by GRAMMY Award Winning Artists, Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical Artists, National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Kyiv Soloists, Kyiv Camerata, Kyiv Chamber Orchestra, Lviv Virtuosos Chamber Orchestra, Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Cherkassy Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir “Khreschatyk”, Sed Contra Ensemble etc.

Sergii received a number of awards for his work such as President’s Scholarship for Young Artists (2018, 2019) and the Scholarship “Gaude Polonia” by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (2016). He is the winner of the Envision Sound Program contest organized by British Council and Dovzhenko Center (2018) and the Druskininkai Artists Residence program by the Lithuanian Composers' Union (2013).