Leon Piron

Дирижер

Born in Port Elizabeth, Leon started his music career at the age of 8 on the piano. His love for music was furthered under the baton of Shawn Lyon. Having matriculated from Grey High School in 2007 he set forth his studies in Music Education at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, now NMU. During this time he also took part in the South African National Youth Orchestra programme where he played bassoon for the Wind Band. While at university Leon played bassoon in the Mandela Bay Symphonic Wind Orchestra as well as serving on the board as head of communication and marketing. Through this he also partook in the Zwide Music Outreach Programme run by TwoTone Music. He also regularly played for show bands in Port Elizabeth. During his final year of studies (2011), Leon started working at Pearson High School teaching bassoon, oboe, saxophone and piano. He also conducted the jazz band. In 2017 he was invited to conduct the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra as part of a masterclass programme hosted by the Peter the Great Music Academy and the National Univeristy of Colombia with Maestro Guerassim Voronkov. Having moved to Stellenbosch in 2018 to take up the position of Culture Manager at Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof he was appointed by Paul Roos Gymnasium as the conductor of Musica Perpetua in January 2019.