Leo Tomita - Chorus Master

Leo Tomita has been our Chorus Master since September 2009.

Leo was Organ Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where in addition to conducting and running the choir and playing the organ for services, he conducted the college orchestra. He is now a counter-tenor Lay Clerk at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he sings in the choir in their daily services (including weekly webcast services), Radio 3 broadcasts, concerts and tours.

Leo is Assistant Conductor of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir, and will be touring North Germany in July 2010 with them. Leo has been Assistant Conductor for several operas including a Yorke Trust production of Rameau’s Castor et Pollux and a Cambridge Music Festival production of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde.

In September, Leo begins studying for an MA in vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music, and has been awarded a Postgraduate Performance Award administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.