Kevin Leong is in his fourth season as Associate Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Choruses.  Along with directing the 150-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, he assists in conducting the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.  Dr. Leong has worked with Jameson Marvin and the Harvard choruses over the past eleven years, having served as Acting Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, Assistant Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club Alumni Chorus.  The Harvard choral groups are featured in the September/October 2006 issue of Choir & Organ magazine.

Dr. Leong has conducted various Harvard ensembles in many performances around the United States and abroad.  Last year, he led the Harvard Glee Club on a spring tour of Texas and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum on a summer tour of Australia.  He has also recently toured with the Radcliffe Choral Society in London and with the Harvard Glee Club in the American Upper Midwest and Central Europe.  As Resident Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the spring of 2003, he led that group in a performance of Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

Dr. Leong’s teaching interests include presenting a wide repertoire to students, community singers, and audiences alike.  This season’s activities include performances of Handel’s Coronation and Chandos Anthems and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem (a collaboration with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra) with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, conducting a fall concert of British music with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and conducting the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society in an annual Christmas concert.  As a choral clinician, Dr. Leong also routinely works with high school ensembles from the United States and Canada.

Dr. Leong is currently completing a doctoral degree in Conducting from Boston University, where he studies with Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, Craig Smith, and Jeremy Yudkin.  At Harvard University, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Biophysics, he serves as Associate in Music at Adams House.  Dr. Leong has taught undergraduate courses in choral conducting at both Harvard and Boston University and has earned several teaching awards.  He is a graduate of Princeton University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and directed the Princeton Katzenjammers.  Dr. Leong has studied voice with Martha Elliott and performs regularly as a tenor with numerous choral ensembles in the Boston area.  He appears with the Choir of the Church of the Advent on the Arsis label.  Dr. Leong is a native of suburban Philadelphia.