Kevin is a Scottish-Filipino composer based in Glasgow who writes primarily for acoustic instrumental forces.

Kevin Leomo is a Glasgow-based composer who who writes primarily for acoustic instrumental forces. His works have been performed by Psappha Ensemble, Ensemble Okeanos, Oregon Composers’ Symposium Guest Artists, Ensemble Móbile, TaiHei Ensemble, and Glasgow New Music Expedition.

Kevin graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MMus in composition by research, completed under the supervision of Professor Bill Sweeney and Dr. Jane Stanley. Kevin is now undertaking doctoral studies with Jane Stanley, with his research investigating aspects of cross- cultural composition. Kevin is a graduate teaching assistant for the course Composition in the Classroom.

Kevin has attended conferences and courses including Sound Thought, Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium with James MacMillan, British Forum for Ehtnomuiscology and Royal Musical Association joint Research Students’ Conference, CoMA Composition Course with Alasdair Nicolson, and Psappha Ensemble Composing for Flute Scheme.

In addition to composition, Kevin is interested in music education and has participated in projects at both primary and secondary school level. During his master’s, Kevin worked closely with his supervisor to implement a composition mentoring scheme which involved students from Glasgow secondary schools who were provided tuition on a regular basis.

Kevin was the assistant composer at sound’s Go Compose, a three-day residential composition course for young composers. Kevin mentored and supported the students to create new works for flute, violin, and cello, which were performed by Red Note Ensemble.

Kevin participated in Enterprise Music Scotland’s Train and Sustain 2018 programme, where he worked with Fauna String Quartet to implement a composition education project at Penicuik High School in Midlothian.

Kevin is also passionate about the promotion of postgraduate practice and research in music. Since 2015, he has been involved with Sound Thought, an annual postgraduate-run conference and festival of music and sound research, composition, and performance. In 2016, Kevin facilitated the premiere of four new works by Glasgow New Music Expedition. Kevin was committee chair for Sound Thought 2017 and oversaw the tenth anniversary of Sound Thought.

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