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Leonard Enns |
 Biography |
Composer and conductor Leonard Enns holds a PhD in Music Theory from Northwestern University (with a dissertation on the choral music of Harry Somers), a Master of Music in choral conducting (supervised by the late Margaret Hillis), and undergraduate degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University, and Canadian Mennonite University. He has an ARCT in piano performance.
Enns has been on faculty in the Music Department at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo since 1977, where he directs the Conrad Grebel Chapel Choir. He is the founding director of the acclaimed DaCapo Chamber Choir, and is active as adjudicator and guest conductor. Recent guest conducting assignments included a concert with the Elora Festival Singers in November 2006.
An Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Enns has produced a significant body of compositions ranging from works for solo piano to full choral/orchestral forces. Recent premieres of his choral works include Nocturne at the 2005 Guelph Spring Festival; Te Deum Brevis in Kyoto, Japan at the 2005 World Choral Symposium; and, also in 2005, Sparrow at Festival 500 in Newfoundland. In 2007 he was named the International Winner of the Polyphonus choral composition competition in Seattle, Washington.
Recent recordings of his works include the 2006 CD NorthWord, recorded by the Elora Festival Singers on the Canadian Music Centre Centrediscs label, and the 2007 CD Hammer and Wind, featuring his instrumental chamber works, and works for vocal solo. His music is published by Boosey & Hawkes, E.C. Schirmer, Gordon V Thompson/Warner Chappell, and other publishers.
Aug. 2007
Photo Credit: Pirak Studios, Waterloo
