In the 2026-2027 season, Leonard will serve as a cover conductor for the Virginia Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic. He also conducts the the BlackBox Ensemble in concerts in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami, and leads the U.S. premiere of the a new evening-length work by Javanese gamelan composer and singer Peni Candra Rini at the PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance. He will also lead the world premiere of Through the Doors, a new chamber opera by Ania Vu.

Originally from upstate New York, Leonard earned his BA in Music and English from Williams College and his Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan. He has been published in VAN Magazine and Off-Latch Press.

Leonard is currently pursuing a Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory, where he studies with Stefan Asbury. He has previously studied at masterclasses with Johannes Schlaefli and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz in Radolfzell, Germany, Jorma Panula and the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, Hungary, and the Pierre Boulez Centennial Conducting Masterclass at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. He has participated in the Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Seminar, Cabrillo Festival Conductors Workshop, and held the American Austrian Foundation Conductors Fellowship at the Salzburg Festival.

He is also the Founder and Conductor of the BlackBox Ensemble, with whom he has presented concert programs and multidisciplinary performances at major venues in NYC and beyond, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Sawdust, Roulette Intermedium, the Noguchi Museum, and the Bang on a Can Long Play Festival.