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 Michelle Leonard is the founding Artistic Director and conductor of the Leichhardt Espresso Chorus, the Moorambilla Voices Regional Children’s Choirs and Festival Director of the Moorambilla Festival.
As a councillor for the Music Council of Australia and National Representative for the
Music in Communities Network, she is actively involved in advocating for choirs through articles, presentations and workshops.
Michelle is widely sought after as a choral clinician particularly on Australian repertoire and she facilitates compositional workshops for special projects.
Michelle’s career includes a period as assistant conductor of the Sydney Children’s Choir, she has been conductor in residence for Gondwana Voices (Junior 2008), was recently
Choir Master for the Festival of Sydney’s Lost and Found Orchestra and also for the 2010 Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Michelle conducted the inaugural Moorambilla Voices touring choir for its 2008 Sydney Opera House performance that celebrated regional indigenous culture and reconciliation on the occasion of Patrick Dodson's Sydney Peace Prize lecture.
Under Michelle's leadership, LEC was awarded the Best Community Outreachaward in the inaugural Music in Communities awards (2008) - read more on the Music in Communities website here. Michelle was also recognised in the 2010 awards with the Certificate of Commendation (pictured - click the picture for a full-screen view).
Click here to read Michelle's weekly blog about her work on the Music in Communities website.
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