Steven Leffue

Doctor of Music
Master of Fine Arts , Sound Design 
Unanimous First Prize, Bolougne-Billancourt Conservatory

Currently

Audio Experience Engineer @ Boomcloud 360
Director, Americas Region @ International Computer Music Association 

Other things I've done

Co-Founder, board member, & curator emeritus - JACK, Brooklyn
Director - International School of Music, Bethesda, MD​
Associate Director - Ohio University School of Theater
Assistant Professor of Sound Design - Ohio University School of Theater
​​Lecturer of Sound Design - University of California San Diego
Teaching Artist, Saxophone - Ohio University School of Music

Awards & Certifications

Member - International Computer Music Association
Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Sound Design (2019)
First Prize (medaille d'or)  with Honors - Conservatoire National de Bolougne, Paris, France 

About Me

I've probably listened to Beethoven longer than anyone else.   I've worked with really cool artists across the United States, including Ron Stabinsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, Rhonda Taylor, Kjell Nordensen, Stanley Zappa, Michael Foster, Mike Pride, the theater company Hoi Polloi, Sledgehammer Theater Company, The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, The Cygnet Theater Company, The Great Noise Ensemble, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, and Theatre C.  I've worked at the Washington DC Fringe Festival, the International Computer Music Conference, The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, The Without Walls Festival, and the Wagner New Play Festival. 

In 2011, I co-founded JACK (jackny.org), a Brooklyn based performing arts space which focuses on modeling equity and justice in the experimental arts.  JACK won an OBIE and has developed into an incubator for voracious emerging artists.  While there, I developed JACK's music programming which to date has presented hundreds of internationally renowned artists in Clinton Hill Brooklyn. including Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Okkyung Lee, Peter Evans, Daniel Carter, Louise D.E. Jensen, Joe McPhee, Cactus Truck, Ingrid Laubrock, Brian Chase, Mark Dresser, Tatsuya Nakatani, Kojo Roney,  Borbetomagus, Ron Stabinsky, William Parker, Ron Anderson, Isabelle Dutoit, Michael Foster and others.  I retired from the JACK's board of directors in 2022.  

I'm a lifelong student, and have passed on what I know by teaching sound design, saxophone, and composition at Ohio University, the University of California San Diego,  the UC Academic Connections Program, and the International School of Music.  I've presented masterclasses on contemporary composition and improvisation in the United States and Europe. 

I earned a Doctorate in music performance from the University of Maryland, a Master's in sound design from the University of California San Diego, a Master's in music performance from the University of Florida, a Diplome des Etudes Musicale from the Conservatiore National de Region Bolougne-Billancourt, and a Bachelor's in music education from Bowling Green State University.  My mentors include: John Sampen, Jean-Michel Goury, Shahrokh Yadegari, Miller Puckette, Jonathan Helton, Tom DeLio, and Dale Underwood.   I am eternally grateful to all of my teachers their perspectives, attention, and for what they helped me to discover.