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Dr. Kevin Leong
Kevin Leong, named Music Director of Masterworks Chorale in 2017, also directs the Jameson Singers and the Concord Chorus. He previously served as Associate Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Choruses at Harvard University, and with Jameson Marvin, co-conducted the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.
Dr. Leong’s teaching interests include presenting a wide repertoire to singers and audiences alike. His ensembles have performed in many venues around the country and abroad, and he has worked as a choral clinician with high school choruses from the US and Canada. He has taught courses in choral conducting and choral literature at Harvard and Boston University and has won several teaching awards.
He earned a doctoral degree in Choral Conducting from Boston University, where he studied with Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, Jeremy Yudkin and Craig Smith. His dissertation on the hymn settings of Ludwig Senfl won the Julius Herford Prize from the American Choral Directors Association, awarded for outstanding doctoral thesis in choral music. Dr. Leong is also the Research Assistant for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works, an editorial and publishing project of the Packard Humanities Institute. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, where he also directed the Princeton Katzenjammers.
Kevin can be reached at conductor@masterworkschorale.org
*Soloists please email Dr. Leong
John Sullivan
John Sullivan, Pianist and Assistant Conductor, joined the Masterworks Chorale in 2019. He is a native of Cambridge and graduated from Harvard in 2009 with a degree in Music; during that time he worked and studied with Kevin Leong.
At Harvard, Mr. Sullivan directed the Dunster House Opera for two seasons, preparing and conducting performances of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (2006-2007) and Così fan tutte (2007-2008). In 2008-2009 he served as the 42nd music director of Harvard’s Bach Society Orchestra; previous music directors of "BachSoc" include John Harbison, John Adams, and Alan Gilbert. As music director, he prepared and conducted four concerts of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Finzi, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Prokofiev, Ravel, Rossini, and Verdi.
He has worked since fall 2009 as an accompanist and a teaching assistant for the chorus classes at Concord-Carlisle High School. He is also the accompanist for the Concord Chorus, where he also serves as Assistant Conductor, and for the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and the Treble Chorus at the Fenn School in Concord, in addition to freelance teaching, coaching, and accompanying. He is a keyboard harmony instructor and Associated Artist at MIT and has served as Music Consultant and annotator for Toscanini releases on the Immortal Performances label.
John can be reached at johnsullivan53111@gmail.com
Laura Stanfield Prichard
Laura Stanfield Prichard is a contributor to our program notes. Laura is the Principal Pre-concert Speaker for Boston Baroque and writes for Boston’s Odyssey Opera and the Boston Musical Intelligencer. She has been a regular lecturer/interviewer for the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Symphony and Rianda House in Napa Valley since 1997, presenting monthly Zoom talks throughout the recent pandemic. In 2019-20 she gave invited lectures at the University of Vienna and in the UK (Canterbury, Oxford, and Bangor, Wales), and she has taught Boston-area college courses in music and history since 2003. She has served as the Assistant Conductor for the Yale Alumni Chorus (on tours to the Netherlands and Russia) and the Grammy-winning San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and is the Music Director for the Winchester Cooperative Theater.
“What is Masterworks Chorale? It’s camaraderie enabled by the love of music.”
