Jeff Leipsic,
Deputy Choirmaster

Jeff Leipsic was born in New York. His love for choral music began in the 9th grade when he first sung in his high school’s a cappella choir, becoming the first ever student conductor of that choir in his senior year. He graduated from the Mannes College of Music, New York City in 1970 earning a bachelor of science degree, his major being orchestral conducting which he studied under Carl Bamberger. He subsequently taught music for five years in the school system of West Haven, Connecticut, completing his Master of Music Education at the University of Connecticut during that time. Beginning with his teenage years, he developed a passion for opera which has continued unabated until the present. Upon his move from the United States to Europe in 1976, he began to use his knowledge of everything operatic by having performance reviews published in both German and English journals. He now reviews performances in Munich and Bayreuth exclusively for Opera News, a publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York. From 1986 until his retirement, he worked fulltime for the Bavarian Radio, Munich. In the fall of 1986 he joined the choir of the Anglican Church of the Ascension, Munich. He became assistant conductor of that choir several years later, taking over as chief conductor and music director upon the retirement of the choir’s founding director Dr Frederick Mayer in 2004. In 2013 he joined the Munich English Choir as a singer, continuing to date in that capacity but assuming in addition the position of Associate Conductor in 2017.