Thomas G. Leslie

Conductor Thomas G. Leslie is the longtime Director of Wind Band Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has led university bands there to national and international prominence. Leslie worked as a high school band director in Iowa, Indiana, and Arizona. In 1985, he joined the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, earning the title of Director of the Division of Wind Band Studies and Professor of Conducting. He made his recording debut with the UNLV Wind Orchestra in 1998 with the album It Takes a Village and has gone on to record more than 20 albums with the group. The UNLV Wind Orchestra won the American Prize for Best American Collegiate Wind Ensemble for 2021. The group was heard on the 2023 album Joe's Tango: Concerto for Trombone and Other Works, featuring trombonist Joseph Alessi in a jazz concerto by Chick Corea.