abstract:Leo Smith is a hurler from Portumna in County Galway, Ireland but plays with the Westmeath senior team, with whom he won Christy Ring Cup tiles in 2005 and 2007. With Portumna he has won Galway Senior Hurling Championships in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Connacht Senior Club Hurling Championships in 2005 & 2007 and All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships in 2006, 2007 and 2009.
Once in New York, Mr. Virelles began working with masters such as trumpeter Wadada LeoSmith and fellow up-and-comers like trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson.
Wadada Leo Smith's "Ten Freedom Summers, " which paired the trumpeter's jazz quartet with a chamber orchestra, was a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for music.
Other finalists included previous winner Aaron Jay Kernis for classical composition "Pieces of Winter Sky" and jazz musician Wadada LeoSmith for "Ten Freedom Summers, " a 10-part examination of the civil rights movement.