Leanne is experienced in choral and operatic music, having enjoyed the position of Music Staff Fellow at English National Opera (2022/23) and subsequently Chief Répétiteur for Opera North’s acclaimed
Requiem project (May 2023). She returned to ENO in Autumn 2023
to work on Peter Grimes with Martyn Brabbins (off-stage conducting)
and in Spring 2024 she joined the music staff team at the
Royal Opera for a new production of Carmen.
Leanne was Chorusmaster for Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal College
of Music, directed by Sir Thomas Allen and conducted by Michael
Rosewell (Autumn 2018). She then prepared the chorus at RCM for
Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoé, and for Holst’s The Planets in the
Queen Elizabeth Hall with Andrew Gourlay (July 2019). Leanne has
worked at the RCM for many years accompanying song classes,
opera and language coachings. She was also a staff member of the
Junior Department, coaching chamber music and playing for singers
and choirs.
Leanne has coached the Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera, and collaborated in concert with singers including Mary Bevan, Marcus Farnsworth, David Butt Philip and Lauren Fagan. She has accompanied choirs including Kingston Choral Society and Imperial Male Voice Choir, touring with the latter to France, Germany, Russia and Ireland.
Since moving to Cambridgeshire in 2021 Leanne has become involved with local music-making and in March 2023 stepped in at short notice to conduct Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem for Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Society, and was appointed Musical Director of Huntingdon Male Voice Choir in 2023.