Leonie captures her environment through field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and compositions for soloists and ensembles. She was artist in residence at New Media Society and Limited Access Festival (Iran), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), and The Story of Space Festival (India), and Berlin Circus Biennale (Germany), and Altes Finanzamt (Germany). She runs the radio branch of Studio LOOS in The Hague and is a co-producer of Iranian Music Label Noise à Noise along with Soheil Soheili. Her music has been performed/installed in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. Leonie’s radio works have been broadcast on all numerous stations and in art radio festivals and her compositions have been released, among others, through Antilounge, Musica Dispersa (Spain/UK), Syrphe (DE), Biodiversità (IT) and Noise á Noise (IR) and have been physically archived in the British Library. Right now her installation Kalpit’s Kitchen can be heard at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India.

Raised in the Ruhr District (Ruhrgebiet) in Germany, Leonie relocated to Los Angeles as a teenager. She studied classical guitar at Los Angeles City College, and received a Bachelor Degree in Composition along with a Minor in Dance Performance at California State University Northridge in 2010.

She then moved to the Netherlands and earned her Master’s Degree in Composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 2013, where she studied with Peter Adriaansz and Calliope Tsoupaki. She then completed a one-year course at the Institute of Sonology, where she focused on Field Recording and the Spatialization of Sound. In 2016 she finished the fourth and last year of the Contemporary Music Through Non-Western Techniques Program at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Rafael Reina as her principle teacher.