Leslie Dala is the Music Director of the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Associate Conductor and Chorus Director of Vancouver Opera, and the Music Director of the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. He has worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canadian Opera Company, the Santa Fe Opera, l’Opera National du Rhin, Edmonton Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria and Saskatoon Opera and he is a frequent guest conductor with the UBC Opera Ensemble, the COSI Program in Sulmona Italy and Soundstreams Canada. Recent highlights include Le Nozze di Figaro in the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival; Don Giovanni at the COSI Program; La Cecchina with the Glenn Gould School Opera Department in Toronto and concerts with the Kamloops and Thunder Bay Symphony. This upcoming season he will lead the Verdi Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Mahler’s 8th Symphony with
the Vancouver Bach Choir; the UBC Opera Ensemble’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and the World Premiere production of The Overcoat, an Opera by James Rolfe and Morris Panych coproduced by Vancouver Opera, Tapestry Opera and Canadian Stage Theatre.