Leonard Enns is Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo Music Department (Ontario, Canada) at Conrad Grebel University College, and active as conductor, composer, and choral adjudicator. He holds a PhD in Music Theory from Northwestern University, Chicago (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 CMBC (now Canadian Mennonite University). He served as conducting assistant to Margaret Hillis for his three years of graduate work at Northwestern University, conducting both the NU University Chorus and the NU Chamber Choir.Enns is the founding director of the award-winning DaCapo Chamber Choir (founded 1998), past director of the UW Chamber Choir, and former (founding) director of the Conrad Grebel Chapel Choir. He has recorded eight choral CDs with his various choirs, and been engaged as conductor on several other recordings. Consistently championing the music of Canadian composers, he has led choir tours throughout Ontario, parts of Quebec, and through north-central and eastern USA, from Indiana to Pennsylvania. He is active as guest conductor, choral adjudicator and clinician; he has served as invited adjudicator for the Llangollen International Music Festival in Wales for four years. Conducting honours include the 2010 Association of Canadian Choral Communities (ACCC) Outstanding Choral Recording award for the DaCapo CD ShadowLand, several advanced placements in the former CBC choral competition, and a double win for the choir in the 2011 Choral Canada Choral Competition with a first in the contemporary class and a second in the chamber choir class.
