I believe life is a continual process of awakening. As the journey of my own life continues, I always find myself connecting my experiences, studies, and ideas to new creative projects that bring beauty, inspiration, and hope for our world. Over the past 30+ years (since I was 17 years old) I have been immersed in the world of architectural design. Yet even before this, I held music close to my heart. At the age of 5, I began my first piano lessons; and since then, I began to see the world through a musical lens — even while designing architecture.

Over the decades, I grew closer and closer to music with a deep love for the design of instruments, their unique timbres, and for all the immersive ways their sounds could be interwoven into beautiful orchestrated compositions. I even began to develop a musical composition methodology, Spatial Symphonics, as I found my architectural design work becoming more and more emotive, soul-stirring, and yes: musical.

In recent years, I finally turned my full attention to music composition. I am a graduate of the Film Scoring Academy of Europe where my works have been recorded by the European Recording Orchestra (ERO), and I am founder of MLL ATELIER® — an award-winning studio now dedicated to my work as an orchestral composer and spatial symphonist. It is my hope that I can share my ongoing musical journey with you, directly from my studio. Expect video updates filled with first-access studio news announcing: album releases, concert premiers, sheet music publications, creative process sneak-peeks, and my own compositional philosophies as they develop to fuel my ongoing body of work.

I would love for you to join me for this exciting new chapter.

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Let’s enjoy the beauty, inspiration, and hope that music brings.

Thank you for joining me on this wondrous journey.

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Inside the studio, score, and creative process of orchestral composer Maria Lorena Lehman.

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