Cello
Composer-in-Residence: 1991-92
AYO National Music Camp: 1980-82, 1992
AYO: 1981-82
Freelance Australian Composer/Conductor Stephen Leek has long associations with some of the finest and most innovative choirs around the world including Gondwana Voices (Australia), the Tapiola Children’s Choir (Finland), Kamer Choir (Latvia), The Formosa Singers (Taiwan), and his own choirs, vOiCeArT and The Australian Voices, that he co-founded and conducted for 16 years until 2009.
Having written 13 operas, numerous orchestral and chamber works, and music for education and dance, Leek is often credited as the ‘founder of Australian choral music’ through his composition of over 700 innovative choral works which explore a uniquely ‘Australian’ colour and texture.
A Churchill Fellow, Leek has received many national and international awards including the prestigious Robert Edler International Choral Prize for his contribution to the development of global choral music and several APRA/AMC National Awards.