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recent work: 2009 — 2008 — 2007 — 2006 — 2005 — 2004
photo by Lertkiat Chongjirajitra

In rehearsal, 2009
Leo has already made several appearances with the Galayani Vadhana Institute Orchestra this year, conducting works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Prokoviev and Sibelius. He also made his debut concert in Manila conducting the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Beethoven's First Symphony, Mozart Oboe concerto and 'By the Hillside', a tone poem by Philippine National Artist Antonino Buenaventura.
On the educational front Leo returned to Australia to teach students at the Sydney Conservatarium and he also gave a violin and chamber music masterclass promoted by 'From Mozart to Madonna'. Leo subsequently travelled on to New Zealand where he gave some lessons and classes at the University of Otago, Dunedin.
He has been twice back to Japan this year, performing and teaching again in Toytashi and Toyohashi, and served as a juror at the ASEAN Concerto competition in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Leo continues his class at Silapakorn University. This year his Korean violin student, Heewon Woo, won a special jury prize at the finals of the Royal Overseas League Thailand Young Musician of the Year. top

Leo leading the orchestra for the Hong Kong International Piano Competition, October 2008, with Vladimir Ashkenasi and Gary Graffman
2008 saw Leo invited to conduct two new orchestral forces in Thailand. In December he appeared as conductor with The Galyani Vadhana Institute Orchestra at the Phayathai Palace. The programme featured four of the six Brandenburg Concerti by J.S. Bach. This rapturously received performance included, as soloists, Tasana Navagajara, Siripong Tiptan, Damrih Banawitayakit, Worapon Kanweerayothin, Lertkiat Chongjirajitra and Trisdee Na Pattalung.
Earlier in the year Leo also conducted, and performed as soloist, in the inaugural concerts of The Siam Chamber Orchestra. An all-Mozart programme featuring the Sinfonia Concertante (Leo playing solo violin along with Shanghai Conservatory professor Nian Liu playing viola), the Clarinet Concerto (with orchestra founder Richard Harvey as soloist), and Symphony No.41 'Jupiter'. The concerts, supported by the Royal Overseas League, were held at the Grand Ballroom of the Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok, and at The Globe Theatre, Regent's School, Pattaya; they were very well attended and much acclaimed. Future projects are planned for both ensembles in 2009, to take place not only in Bangkok, but also to tour around the country.
On the teaching front, Leo continued his classes at Bangkok's Silpakorn University and he was also invited to teach as a guest professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Hong Kong. Leo also returned to Australia for a week as Artist-in-Residence at The Sydney Conservatorium. He gave performance classes and private lessons, and coaching sessions for the orchestra and several chamber music ensembles.
Leo's student string quartet, 'The Dragon String Quartet' played two concerts at the Pridi Banomyong Theatre. The first consisted of quartets by Mozart, Barber and Beethoven, and the second featured Mendelssohn's first string quartet and Mozart's String Quintet in C, with Leo joining the group on viola.top
The highlight of the 2006/7 season was the formation of 'The Campus Camerata', a versatile orchestral force that aims to combine, under Leo's artistic direction, the best of students from Thai and International Schools and Universities with their professional teachers who themselves constitute the top instrumental musicians in Bangkok.
In November 2006, nineteen students from seven different Bangkok educational institutions collaborated in a well-attended and highly acclaimed performance of all four Bach violin concerti (A minor, E major, oboe/violin and two violins) directed by Leo from the violin, and featuring Bangkok's premiere oboist, Silapakorn Professor Damrih Banawitayakit, and Shrewsbury School Music Scholar Shunsuke Takemura. The concert was held at The Professor Sangvian Indaravijaya Auditorium at The Stock Exchange of Thailand, and was generously sponsored by Oleochem (Thailand) Ltd., Shrewsbury International and Bangkok Patana Schools, and produced by The Bangkok Music Society and Settrade.
The ensemble's next performance took place in March 2007 at the Khunying Sumanee Memorial Hall at Shrewsbury International School.
Twenty-two students played alongside seventeen professional instrumentalists as Leo conducted the full combined orchestra in performances of Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D ('Prague'), and Haydn's London Symphony No. 102 in B flat. The orchestra leader for the occasion was one of Bangkok's finest violinists, the Associate Dean of Silapakorn University, Ajarn Tasana Navagajara.top
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