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. Amick was selected as a 2025 Copland House CULTIVATE fellow.  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.

Leigha teaches counterpoint, keyboard harmony, and solfège for the Young Artists Initiative at the Curtis Institute of Music.

In 2022, New Voices Opera premiered Rhiannon’s Condemnation: a one-act chamber opera based on a medieval Welsh legend from The Mabinogion for which Leigha wrote both the libretto and the music.

Amick received her Master of Music degree in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music where she held the Jimmy Brent Fellowship and studied with Amy Beth Kirsten, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Nick DiBerardino, Richard Danielpour, and Steve Mackey.  She received her Bachelor of Music in composition with highest distinction from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, completing minors in mathematics and electronic music.  At IU, she studied composition with David Dzubay, Aaron Travers, Claude Baker, Sven-David Sandström, and Don Freund.  Before college, she studied with Daniel Kellogg and John Drumheller of the University of Colorado Boulder.