About this artist
Leonid Grin is an American conductor.
Grin was born in Dnipropetrovsk. Trained from early childhood on as a pianist and composer, he later studied orchestra conducting at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginsburg and Kiril Kondrashin. After graduating with honors he became immediately Associate Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted until his emigration many leading orchestras of the Soviet Union.
Soon after his emigration with his wife and two children to the USA in 1981, Leonard Bernstein became Grin’s mentor. He selected him to be one of the first conducting fellows of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Grin started during that time working with leading western orchestras like the Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Göteborg Symphony, Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Leipzig Radio Orchestra, as well as the Helsinki Philharmonic. In the USA he worked among others with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra.