Leo Li, an active choral conductor, focuses on cross-cultural and cross-language choral conducting. He has served the role as a choral conductor officially since age 18; in the same year, he conducted the choir and won the Gold Prize in Czech International Music Festival. He is pursuing his PhD at University of Toronto.
Mr. Li experiences in conducting mixed choir, women’s choir, university choir, youth choir, children’s choir, community choir, school choir, and vocal ensembles in both Canada and China. He is passionate in building connections and bringing possibilities for different choirs/singing groups. His master’s major research paper, “Preparing and Conducting English Choral Works: a manual for Chinese choral conductors”, contributes to the Chinese choral community.
Leo Li has performed and conducted in Australia, Canada, China, Czech, Russia, and Ukraine. In 2016, Mr. Li conducted Chinese and Russian pop and folk pieces in the Friendship Concert in The 9th World Choir Games, Sochi, Russia.
In 2022, Mr. Li served as the Co-Chair of Community and School Engagement Portfolio and Local Choir Liaison Portfolio in PODIUM2022 with his colleagues; a new series of event – the Connections Series – is launched for creating a sharing platform for mainstream choral society and community/ethnic based choral/singing communities.