Leonard Ligon

Leonard Ligon is a Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of South Alabama. He holds a Master of Music in Music Performance (2018) and dual Bachelor of Music degrees in Double Bass Performance and Music Theory (2016) from the University of Georgia, and previously pursued a Master of Music in Music Theory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Mr. Ligon is active as a teacher, conductor, and orchestral musician in Alabama and Mississippi, performing with organizations such as the Mobile Symphony and Mobile Opera. His research focuses on early 20th-century orchestral composers like Charles Ives and Dmitri Shostakovich, particularly the interplay between traditional tonal theory and neo-Riemannian analytical frameworks.

He has studied at conservatories in Italy (Alessandria, Milan, Turin, Parma) and participated in the Festival Internacional de Inferno da UFSM (Brazil) and the Brevard Music Center Festival (North Carolina) twice during summers.