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Leo MacFall (*1981 in London) is a British conductor.
McFall played piano and viola in his childhood. After studying music at Oxford University, he studied Conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Leif Segerstam and at the Hochschule der Künste in Zurich with Professor Johannes Schlaefli. During his stay in Finland, he founded his own Ensemble and continued to lead the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra. Mcfall was assistant to the Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink from 2005 to 2012, with whom he performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since 2009, he has received funding from the conductor's forum. He also participated intensively at the Glyndebourne Festival.
From the season 2012/13 Leo McFall was 1st Kapellmeister and deputy general music director Philippe Bach at the Meininger Hofkapelle, which is affiliated to the Südthüringische Staatstheater in Meiningen. Since 2013 he has also been assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. In 2015 he finished his contract with the Meininger Hofkapelle, where he was the last conductor of Verdi's La traviata. McFall has been a freelance conductor since then.
2015 Leo McFall won the German conductor prize, which is awarded by the German music Council.
