Composer Leigha Amick writes music to spark intellectual curiosity and express human experience. Her compositions have been performed by ensembles including the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Playground Ensemble, St. Martin’s Voices, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir, NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and Ars Nova Singers. In 2024, her piece Cascade was performed by the New Jersey Symphony as one of the scores selected for the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. In 2023, she was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. Amick received her Master of Music degree in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music where she held the Jimmy Brent fellowship.