Leon holds advanced degrees in music and theology, including the M.Div. and Master of Music from Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Music; and Master’s Diploma in Pastoral Studies and Church Music Studies from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music, where he was awarded the Hugh Porter Prize for Academic Excellence in the Dual Disciplines of Theology and Sacred Music. He was awarded the Harry Jensen Prize for Organ Performance from the Yale School of Music Organ Department.  He also holds the Doctor of Ministry from the United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia.

Leon has served for the past 14 years as regular organist for the New Jersey Episcopal Diocese’s events at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton, NJ.  Before returning to church music he was a pastor and Chaplain at Amherst College in Amherst, MA and Smith College in Northampton, MA.