Julius Herford Prize Awarded

This year’s winner of the Julius Herford Prize is Kevin C. Leong.  His pioneering dissertation, “The Hymn Settings of Ludwig Senfl’s Liber vesperarum festorum solennium, D-Mbs Mus. Ms. 52, was accepted at Boston University and directed by Jeremy Yudkin, Ann Howard Jones, and Martin Amlin. 

Dr. Leong is in his sixth season as Associate Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Choruses.  He conducts the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and co-conducts the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.  Dr. Leong also holds a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.  He has studied voice with Martha Elliott.