One of the most frequently performed contemporary American composers, Jonathan Leshnoff has received commissions from major orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. He is also an important educator. One of Leshnoff's earliest compositions was ...without a chance, for three percussionists, from 2002. That work was recorded on the album Jonathan Leshnoff: Chamber Music, which appeared in 2012. In the early 2000s decade, Leshnoff joined the faculty of Maryland's Towson University, where he remained as of the early 2020s. Many of Leshnoff's compositions are for orchestra, although he has also composed chamber music, choral music (including four oratorios), and music for band, the latter for the United States Marine Band and for the bands of Maryland institutions, among other groups. By 2022, when Leshnoff's Horn Trio appeared on an album along with horn trios by Brahms and Lennox Berkeley, some 25 of Leshnoff's compositions had been recorded.