LEONIE GANIVET grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Learning piano, guitar, drama and ballet took up most of her spare time. After completing her secondary education at Stratherne Presbyterian Girls Grammar (Helen Reddy of "I Am Woman" fame, and pianist/composer Mary Hannah Brahe, also attended Stratherne) she intended to pursue medical studies, but became so busy with her musical career that she was soon performing regularly, both as a solo artist and with various singing groups like the "Four Clefs", the "Maori Troubadours" and the "Hi-Fi's". After ballet tuition at the Borovansky Ballet School, Leonie joined the dance studio of internationally famous dancer and teacher Vija Vetra, who left an indelible mark on her life. After an injury put a stop to her dancing career she decided to concentrate on music and singing. In her late teens, under the name of Leonie Paul, she appeared on the "Country & Western Hour", "In Adelaide Tonight", "The Ray Taylor Show", and as an extra on soapies such as "The Box". She gained a wealth of experience performing in touring variety shows with people like Art Luden, Maurie Fields, Jan Adele, Val Jellay, Syd Heylen, Max Reddy and many others. Leonie was also a guest on the "Go" show and other popular teen shows of the sixties with artists like Olivia Newton-John, Colleen Hewitt, Normie Rowe and Ian Turpie before she left Australia to work overseas for several years. Her overseas work involved recording albums, doing session work for radio and television and live performing. Back in Australia she toured with rock bands "Summerwine" & "General Lee" managed by Donnie Sutherland. Many well known performers played in or "sat in" with the band including Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Walsh (the Eagles), Rick Price, Doug Parkinson and many others. Leonie has won several song-writing awards over the years including the Australian National Songwriting Award and the South Pacific Song Contest. She sings in fourteen languages and was a featured artist at the internationally famous restaurant "The Cuckoo" for more than three years where she performed German, Austrian/Bavarian, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and French music. Nowadays, Leonie operates Austpac Productions which specialises in Graphic Design, Web Design and Book Editing. Austpac Productions is associated with Norsound Studios recording studio in Bowral NSW, which involves music computer programming, recording, composing and scoring for people all over Australia and world wide. Her work has included completely re-scoring the music for the 1999 production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Bye Bye Birdie" in 2002, "Chicago" in 2003, and took on the assignment of music production for "Grease" in 2007. Leonie was also Sound Engineer for "Oklahoma" , involving large orchestra and cast, and "Bye Bye Birdie". Leonie has been Musical Director for many large shows, some involving choirs of over 200 singers, including children's choirs. In 2008, Leonie was musical director for a big budget production of the Lloyd Webber musical "CATS". With a fabulously talented cast of singers and dancers, the show was a major success and played to packed houses for the entire season. Norsound Studios is a highly reliable and reputable supplier of backing music of all kinds for singers, professional acts, Eisteddfod, theatre, musicals, and schools. Performance coaching in drama and singing is another speciality of the studio. Other services include jingles and original music for documentary, and amateur & professional video work.