Tania León Composer/conductor Tania León will give a lecture and hear a performance of some of her works during an October 12-13 visit to Ithaca College. The trip to south hill will be one of several this year for Le›n, the 1997-98 Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition. A professor of music at Brooklyn College, León has received awards for her compositions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, the New York State Council on the Arts, Reader's Digest, ASCAP, CINTAS, and Meet the Composer. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Residency at Yaddo and a Rockefeller Foundation residency at the Bellagio Festival in Italy. Indigena, a compact disk of León's chamber music, was released on CRI in 1994. A CD including her works Batá and Carabali was released in 1995 on the Louisville Orchestra's First Edition Records. Her music is also recorded on Albany Records, Newport Classic, Leonarda, and Mode. She was appointed Revson Composer Fellow by the New York Philharmonic in 1993, a three-year post in which she advised music director Kurt Masur on contemporary music. Last year, she was appointed the new music advisor for the New York Philharmonic. She is also the cofounder and artistic advisor of the American Composers Orchestra's annual festival Sonidod de las Americas. León's trip here next month comes as part of the two-day "Voices of Our Time" new music festival at the College's School of Music. The October 12 lecture and the October 13 performance by the College's Symphony Orchestra and Faculty Chamber Ensemble are each to begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall Auditorium. Both events are free and open to the public.

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