About Leewood K-8 Music
In 1971, Leewood Elementary opened its school doors to students for the first time. Throughout the years, it has been a special place where students have learned, grown, and developed into well-rounded members of society. One of the ways in which this has been achieved has been with the help of the Arts, more specifically, Music!
Since Leewood Elementary was transformed into Leewood K-8 Center in 2009, the band and orchestra programs have been at the forefront of the performing arts. Now, with three orchestra classes (and possible chorus classes), Leewood K-8 is sure to leave a mark in Miami-Dade County.
Under the direction of the newly appointed director Mrs. Mariana Corzo, Leewood K-8 Center will shine in performing arts. She will teach, guide, and lead her students through the wonderful art of music with passion and excitement! The best is yet to come…
About Mrs. Corzo
Mariana Y. Corzo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1992. She started studying the violin at the age of eight, and piano at the age of nine, at the Alejandro García Caturla Music Conservatory. In 2007 she, along with her family, emigrated to the United States and continued to pursue music at the Miami Conservatory of Music in Coconut Grove, Florida. After high school, she was accepted into Florida International University’s School of Music and received her Bachelor’s in Violin Performance and Music Education in 2015.
Mrs. Corzo completed and received her Master’s in Music Education from F.I.U. in 2017. Throughout her graduate career, she continued to study the violin under the tutelage of violinist Marcia Littley, who studied with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, New York. In 2015, Mrs. Corzo won First Place in F.I.U.’s annual Concerto Competition and, accompanied by the university’s orchestra, played Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, under the direction of world-renowned Chilean conductor Maximiano Valdés.
An educator at heart, Mrs. Corzo loves to teach, but she is also passionate about performing. She plays her violin any chance she gets whether in a lesson, at a gig, or at church. Mrs. Corzo lives in Miami, FL., and has two beautiful children with her husband Isaac, who also happens to be a music educator in MDCPS.