Leanne Rees began her piano studies in California at the age of four. She soloed with the San Jose Symphony Orchestra with Gastone Usigi at the age of nine, and with Sandor Salgo, conductor of the Bach Festival Orchestra, at the age of thirteen.

A graduate of Stanford University, she continued her study of the piano in California with pianist/composer Allen Ferguson and later with Sylvia Jenkins and Adolph Baller, and in Washington D.C. with Thomas Mastroianni. She has performed extensively in California and throughout the United States and Europe. Since moving to the Washington DC area, Ms. Rees has performed with numerous chamber ensembles and was honored by Washingtonian Magazine as one of twenty-eight leading women performers.

A trailblazer in the development of works by women composers, Leanne Rees has discovered and performed works of women throughout the United States and Europe.

She has performed with the National Symphony for the opening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, on the Dumbarton Concert Series, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the International Monetary Fund, the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, the Kennedy Center, and various colleges and universities throughout the United States.