Leonardo Rosario is an active conductor, performer, and educator with an extensive international and multicultural violin performance career. As a researcher, he is committed to uncovering or rediscovering works for the violin by diverse composers, focusing most recently on the violin music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. He was the recipient of the 2016 UNCG Burlington Industries Music Scholarship Quasi Endowment, UNCG full graduate assistantship, Boston Conservatory full scholarship, and 2008 2nd prize winner of the International Chamber Music Competition of Chamber Music Foundation of New England. As a violinist, he has recorded for labels such as EMI and Naxos. His international career has included performances in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, and Uruguay, and conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Kurt Mazur, Gustavo Dudamel, among others. He served 3 years as assistant concertmaster for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and 2 years as first violin at the Spartanburg Philharmonic. Currently, he is 1st violin at the Salina Symphony, and the Director of Strings Area and Orchestra Director at Kansas Wesleyan University.