Leon Chu

Music Director and Conductor

Leon Chu Chun-wai studied percussion under Choy Lap-tak, and vocal music under Albert Lim Chung. He had also studied choral conducting in the workshops by Norwegian conductor Kare Hanken and Bulgarian conductor Theodora Pavlovitch. He graduated from the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003.

Chu has been the conductor of several choirs and ensembles. Currently he serves as the music director and conductor of the CU Chorus, and the resident conductor of Hong Kong Tertiary Students’ Ensemble. Chu participated actively in various vocal and theatrical performances, including a Staatsoper Stuttgart production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail conducted by Lothar Zagrosek in 2002 Hong Kong Arts Festival. He is also a percussionist in various local orchestras.

Chu was the tutor of a workshop by ISCM World Music Days 2002, and currently he is the choral conductor, band conductor and percussion tutor in a number of primary and secondary schools. In 2008, with composer Alfred Wong, Chu was invited to design a music appreciation course for Capacity Building Mileage Programme by Open University of Hong Kong, as well as being the guest speaker of the related programme on Commercial Radio FM881.

Chu has been an active music critic since he was a student. He is a writer for Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong Economic Times, Ming Pao Daily, Hi-Fi Review, C for Culture, MUZIK (Taiwan). His introductory article and programme notes have featured in several house programmes of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also the translator for a number of projects by the Universal Music Group.