Leah Hokanson

Music :: Inquiry :: Transformation :: Community

Music has been central to my professional life for almost three decades. As both a performer and teacher, I have made music in a wide range of settings: from concert halls to classrooms; from formal ceremonies to outdoor stages.

Although I have been a performer for many years, I have also turned to music as a vehicle to explore creativity and the brain, a way to enter creative space with others, and a way to understand what it means to live fully in community. In other words, I experience the wonder of music making most vividly and intimately as a process of creative expression and inquiry in community.

Over the years I’ve met many adults who have been told, usually at some point in childhood, that they aren’t musical. This, I feel, is one of the great tragedies of living in our product driven, competitive society. Many express not only an interest in participating in music, but a deep longing for the experience that musical involvement can bring. Getting to work with those who are opening to their own musicality is a constant source of inspiration and joy.

Leah Hokanson

pianist, vocalist, choral director, facilitator, speaker (Leah Resume)