Born in London of Anglo-Indian descent, Dr Leo Geyer is a composer, conductor, and presenter. He began his career as a Cover Conductor at the Royal Ballet and Opera. Now, he is the founder and Artistic Director of Constella Music, the company established in 2011 that performs, broadcasts and publishes Leo’s work. This includes Constella’s performances of Leo's restorations of unheard music written in Auschwitz, resulting in worldwide news coverage and the documentary film The Lost Music of Auschwitz, hailed by the Financial Times as “profoundly moving”. Praised by The Times for his “imaginative and beautifully shaped” music, Leo has received various accolades including the Royal Television Society’s Best Original Score. Leo’s music has been performed internationally by ensembles including...
Born in London of Anglo-Indian descent, Dr Leo Geyer is a composer, conductor, and presenter. He began his career as a Cover Conductor at the Royal Ballet and Opera. Now, he is the founder and Artistic Director of Constella Music, the company established in 2011 that performs, broadcasts and publishes Leo’s work. This includes Constella’s performances of Leo’s restorations of unheard music written in Auschwitz, resulting in worldwide news coverage and the documentary film The Lost Music of Auschwitz, hailed by the Financial Times as “profoundly moving”.
Praised by The Times for his “imaginative and beautifully shaped” music, Leo has received various accolades including the Royal Television Society’s Best Original Score. Leo’s music has been performed internationally by ensembles including the English Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Rambert Dance Company, Opera North, Theater Aachen and Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere.
Described by James Murphy, CEO of the Royal Philharmonic Society as “one of the great young British conductors to watch,” Leo has worked as a guest conductor with the BBC Concert Orchestra, English National Opera, Birmingham Contemporary Music Ensemble, the National Theatre, Luxembourg Kammerata, Ensemble 212 (USA), AUT (Denmark), and other ensembles.
With his desire to share composition and musicological research with the wider world, Leo trained as a broadcast presenter on the BBC Open Music Programme under the supervision of Katie Derham. He made his debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2022 as part of the BBC Proms, broadcast live on Radio 3. Since then, Leo has appeared on numerous radio and television programmes on the BBC, ITV, and Sky Arts.
