Leon Burke, III

Leon Burke, assistant director, holds music degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Kansas. He conducts the University City Symphony and sometimes serves as a cover conductor for the St. Louis Symphony. Dr. Burke teaches voice privately and he has been an adjunct professor of voice at St. Louis University and East Central College. He is the choir director and music director at the First Congregational Church of Webster Groves UCC. Although he no longer spends his summers conducting at the Chaparral Music Festival in Prescott, AZ , he often spends his summers in South America as Principal Guest Conductor of the Asuncion Symphony and Paraguay’s version of “El Sistema,” Sonidos de la Tierra.