About Masterworks Chorale

Kevin Leong joined Masterworks Chorale as the Music Director in 2017. He 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.

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 U.S. and Canada. He has taught courses in choral conducting and choral literature at Harvard and Boston University and has won several teaching awards.

Leong 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. 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 PhD in Biophysics from Harvard and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, where he also directed the Princeton Katzenjammers.