CURRICULUM VITAE

Eva-Maria Leeb
is a conductor, church musician and university lecturer with a particular focus on children’s and youth choir conducting. She teaches children’s and youth choir conducting at the University of Music and Theatre Munich (HMTM), as well as choral conducting and children’s and youth choir conducting at the University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education Regensburg (HfKM). She has held several interim professorships in choral conducting at the universities of music in Bayreuth and Regensburg. At Mozarteum University Salzburg, she also contributed to the ERASMUS+ research project ‘How to carry out virtual choir rehearsals with the help of digital tools’ as a university assistant. As church musician at the Cathedral Parish of St Ulrich Niedermünster in Regensburg, she directs several choirs and is responsible for a wide range of church music projects.

 

Her work with children and young people is a defining aspect of her artistic and educational profile.At HfKM Regensburg, she founded the Mädchenkantorei (Girls’ Choir) and developed it into a multi-level training and performance ensemble. Its oldest choir group has established a strong reputation beyond the region, while the combination of continuous choral training, individual vocal tuition and university-level education serves as a model for children’s and youth choir programmes at universities of music. Leeb has gained further practical experience through her work for the International Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Civilization.

 

Eva-Maria Leeb regularly shares her expertise in choral conducting and choral pedagogy through lectures, workshops and professional development courses in Germany and abroad. Her work focuses in particular on contemporary approaches to children’s and youth choir practice, ensemble pedagogy and the further development of training for future choral conductors.

 

Her musical education includes degrees in church music and conducting, with a specialisation in choral conducting. She has received further artistic and pedagogical inspiration through masterclasses and courses with Kurt Masur, Neil Varon, Vytautas Miškinis, Peter Planyavsky, Kurt Suttner, Friederike Stahmer and Friedhilde Trüün, among others.

 

Eva-Maria Leeb has received several awards in recognition of her artistic, educational and academic work, most recently the Regensburg Award for Women in Science and the Arts in 2023. Further distinctions include the Cultural Promotion Award of the City of Marktredwitz, first prize at the international G. P. da Palestrina Choral Competition in Rome, and second prize at the 2015 Choral Conducting Competition of the German General Association of St Cecilia (ACV).

 

In 2021, ConBrio published her widely recognised book ‘JugendChorLeitung – Impulse für eine ansprechende und erfolgreiche Jugendchorarbeit’. The book filled a gap in the specialist literature by providing a dedicated, practice-oriented publication specifically addressing youth choir conducting. Further concepts and publications on children’s and youth choir conducting are currently in development. Eva-Maria Leeb is currently pursuing a doctorate in choral pedagogy at Mozarteum University Salzburg.