Leila E. Koch (b. 2001) is an Atlanta-based musicologist, Lyrical Soprano, and composer. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in voice and a Public Musicology certificate from Columbus State University's Schwob School of Music.
Leila has expertise in minority composers, including females, African Americans, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and others, and a passion for education others on these composers. She mainly specializes in women composers. She also researches the classical elements in rock albums, for example, she is currently working on a paper on Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Her publications included an online listening guide and podcast for Dr. Rosephanye Powell's Still I Rise, a score preface, research analysis of composer diversity, a play performed at Springer Opera House in Columbus, GA, a museum exhibit at the Columbus Museum on R&B in Columbus, GA (May 2024-April 2025), and an interactive children's ebook on R&B in Atlanta.
Leila's current projects are the Pink Floyd paper listed above, a paper on why lack of education has led to disregarded female composers, and composing multiple pieces (for details, see Compositions page). In the future, she hopes to write and publish books on minority composers, such as Nora Holt, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Isabella Colbran, and others.
Leila has expertise in minority composers, including females, African Americans, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and others, and a passion for education others on these composers. She mainly specializes in women composers. She also researches the classical elements in rock albums, for example, she is currently working on a paper on Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Her publications included an online listening guide and podcast for Dr. Rosephanye Powell's Still I Rise, a score preface, research analysis of composer diversity, a play performed at Springer Opera House in Columbus, GA, a museum exhibit at the Columbus Museum on R&B in Columbus, GA (May 2024-April 2025), and an interactive children's ebook on R&B in Atlanta.
Leila's current projects are the Pink Floyd paper listed above, a paper on why lack of education has led to disregarded female composers, and composing multiple pieces (for details, see Compositions page). In the future, she hopes to write and publish books on minority composers, such as Nora Holt, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Isabella Colbran, and others.