Leonardo Balada, the Catalan composer who came to New York in 1956 to study composition, has been a powerful creative force for more than three decades. His highly personal “avant-garde” techniques

Leonardo Balada's exposure to the plastic arts in New York was perhaps of greater significance to his style than the music heard around him. In Balada’s music one finds by his own admission

Leonardo Balada DISCOGRAPHY / recordings COMPOSITIONS Opera Hangman, Hangman!, chamber opera (1982) Zapata, opera (1984) Christopher Columbus, opera (1986) Death of Columbus, opera (1996) The