MR. LEEVILLE
for the rehearsal room
I guest conduct honor choirs, festivals and mass choirs, from elementary through high school, and I often bring original repertoire with me. I invite singers into modern styles of performance, teach non-traditional songs by rote, and hold a high standard of musicianship by centering the joy that comes from singing in community.
Guest Conductor at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, presented by MidAmerica Productions in its 41st season. I conducted A Journey Through the Nourishment Cycle, a set of works I composed and compiled, during a five-day residency.
- Tshotsholoza (Go Forward) — trad., adapted by Jeffrey Ames
- Way Over in Beulah Lan’ — Stacey V. Gibbs
- My Soul’s Been Anchored — arr. Moses Hogan
- Never End — Jordan Lee, Carnegie Hall arrangement
- YOU ARE — Jordan Lee, Carnegie Hall debut
- Total Praise — Richard Smallwood
Recent Engagements
CHROMX Mass Choir
ACE Spirit Week FestivalI direct the festival’s mass choir every year. In 2020 the CHROMX Choir sang Richard Smallwood’s Total Praise at Shiloh Baptist Church in Greensboro for ACOBE Fest.
Asheboro Elementary Choir
I wrote an original song for the choir.
Program
- The Turn Off Your Phone Song · 2-part
- Bonse Aba — Victor C. Johnson
- Know That I Love You — Jordan Lee · quick notation / rote
- De Colores
- Here Comes the Sun
- Shine On Me
WSFCS Middle School All-County Choir
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County SchoolsThe concert closed with my original Good Day as a mass choir experience, with elementary, middle and high school singers on one stage.
Program
- Bonse Aba — Victor C. Johnson
- Ad Astra — Jacob Narverud
- Know You Are Loved — Cleo Sol
- Harmony — Pink Zebra
- Good Day — Jordan Lee · closer, mass choir
NCAIS Honors Chorus
High Point University · Oct 9–10Conductor of the first NCAIS middle school honors choir.
Program
- You Will Be Found — arr. Mac Huff · SAB
- Ad Astra — Jacob Narverud · 3-part mixed
- Bonse Aba — Victor C. Johnson · 3-part mixed
- I Sing Because I’m Happy — arr. Rollo Dilworth · SAB
Rockingham County All-County Choir
High school · Rockingham County, NCProgram
- Know You Are Loved — Cleo Sol · taught by rote, 3-part
- Ad Astra — Jacob Narverud · SAB
- Bonse Aba — Victor C. Johnson · 3-part mixed
- Forget Not My Heart — Vicki Tucker Courtney & John Parker · SSA
- What a Wonderful World — arr. Mark Hayes · 2-part, sung down the octave
ACOBE Virtual Choir with Dr. Chris Hansen
Anderson University · ACOBE Festival Virtual Conference, April 16, 2021100 singers from 16 organizations in a virtual choir performance of Total Praise, with Notes for Notes. Three years later, Dr. Hansen and I shared the Carnegie Hall podium.
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Guest Conducting
Honor choirs, all-county and festival choirs, and mass choir concerts, with original repertoire if you want it.
Clinics & Residencies
A day or a week with your ensemble: tone, blend, contemporary technique and repertoire coaching.
A Cappella Clinician
Feel, blend, vowel matching and groove, the listening that makes a section sound like one voice.
Director PD
Contemporary a cappella, popular voice pedagogy and recording in the classroom.
Bring me to your choir
Tell me about your ensemble, your dates, and what you want them to walk away with. I'll come back with a plan.
Scores & Arrangements
Original compositions and a cappella arrangements. Perusal scores available on request.
Eclectic by Nature
The UNCG Spartones · 2017
An 11-track TTBB a cappella album. I produced most of the record, and the charts were written for the group.
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Commission a Work
Consortium commissions, anniversary pieces, festival repertoire, and works written for a specific ensemble's voices. I write for the choir in front of me — including the ones still learning to trust themselves.
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