Leslie Fillmer began his professional career in 1967 as an arranger for the Apostolic Recording Studios in New York City.
He served as a staff musician with the United States Air Force Academy Band. Fillmer has written for Arthur Fiedler and Richard Hayman, both long associated with the Boston Pops Orchestra.
His compositions and orchestrations have been performed and recorded by a wide variety of musical organizations including the St. Louis Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, and the Alabama School of Fine Arts.
Fillmer has also conducted the North Carolina Symphony, members of the Atlanta Symphony, the Birmingham Metropolitan Orchestra, and Town & Gown Theatre.
He was founding music director of the Sunbelt Sinfonia and served eight years as music director of the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra. He has been adjunct instructor of music at the University of Alabama, University of Montevallo, and was appointed chairman of the Department of Music at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in 1996.
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