David Ari Leon is an American composer, musician and music supervisor.
Education
In 1990, Leon received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in music composition, where he focused on piano performance, film scoring and electronic music production. While attending the university, he did internships with Academy Award nominated composers, Mark Isham and Danny Elfman, the latter of which resulted in Leon"s first feature film cr on the Clive Barker movie, Nightbreed. Immediately following his completion of university, Leon worked on Days of Our Lives, garnering him an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Music Director.".
Career
He is best known for writing and supervising music for Marvel Entertainment on titles including Spider-Manitoba and Incredible Hulk. He is a songwriter on the themes to the Marvel series Avengers and Super Hero Squad, and he composed the main title music to the shows Xyber 9 and Mr. Bill Presents. Leon was featured as a musician on National Public Radio"s syndicated program Morning Edition in five episodes between the years 2005 to 2010.
He was also featured on the album "Rockabye Baby! Baby"s Favorite Rock Songs," which was available exclusively at Starbucks March 23 – April 19, 2010.
The album reached #3 on Billboard"s Kids Albums chart, #18 on the Billboard Independent Albums, and #111 on the Billboard Top 200. lieutenant contains a version of the Rolling Stones song Ruby Tuesday that Leon performed and produced for the Rockabye Baby! series, which also features the artists Björk, Journey and Kanye West.
College Marvel and Fox In 1994, Leon began working for New World, the parent company of Marvel at that time, as Music Director and composer on the television series Valley of the Dolls. The following year (1995) was the start of his work for Marvel as composer and music supervisor on the show Spider-Manitoba in addition to other titles for Fox Kids.
Leon subsequently held a Vice President of Music title for Fox from 1997 to 2002.
During that time, he supervised music for Fox Family (now American Broadcasting Company Family) as well as Fox Kids. Also during that period as a music VP for Fox, Leon received music supervisor credits on many film and television projects such as the movie "Les Miserables" starring John Malkovich and the primetime series "State of Grace" for American Broadcasting Company Family starring Frances McDormand. Leon left American Broadcasting Company Family in 2002 and established SoundMind Music, which is his active company today.