Several years ago, Leland met a young filmmaker who was just finishing up his independent film, The Winter of Her. His plan was to score the film with traditional classical music from the public domain.

Leland asked if he could audition to score the film. The filmmaker provided Leland with the first cut of the film's trailer, which was cut with some of that classical music. Leland created a short score based solely on that trailer.

In the end, the filmmaker told Leland he was going to use the classical music for the film after all, but Leland is still very happy with his brief score.

The performance was created using rudimentary MIDI software, so there isn't any real emotion in the performance, but the idea is still there.

Leland is always seeking more opportunities to score for film.

Here is the audition piece, Leland's score over the film-maker's original trailer.  This scored trailer was never used by the filmmaker, and is presented here only to present the score.