Leon Ko

Leon received a Richard Rodgers Development Award in the US for his musical Heading East, as well as eight Hong Kong Drama Awards for his musicals such as The Good Person of Szechwan, The Passage Beyond, Our Immortal Cantata and Sing Out. His musical Takeaway was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London in 2011. He was the music director for pop icon Jacky Cheung’s Mandarin edition of the musical Snow. Wolf. Lake. Leon’s film music has won him multiple awards including a Golden Horse Award, an ASCAP Screen Award and two Hong Kong Film Awards. He collaborated with conductor Yip Wing-sie and Hong Kong Sinfonietta on The Amazing Filmphony with his film music. He has also written overtures and interludes for three of the Yam Kim Fai and Pak Suet Sin Charitable Foundation’s Chinese opera productions, including the classic Princess Chang Ping. Recent works include The Originals, a concert he curated to celebrate fifty years of original musicals of Hong Kong, as well as the musical The Woman in Kenzo.

Leon has a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He served on the council of Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

Source: Le French May