Burnaby Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Camplin, Music Director and Conductor

Meet the Music Director and Conductor, Leonard Camplin

Leonard Camplin

Music Director & Conductor, Leonard Camplin

Leonard Camplin, CD, FTCL, is the Founder and Music Director of the Burnaby Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Founder and Music director of the Kelowna Philharmonic Festival Society and the Kelowna POPS Orchestra. A Fellow of England’s Trinity College of Music, Leonard Camplin has conducted throughout Europe, Canada, the United States and the Far East. He has been applauded by a number of world-class musicians including Wilfrid Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor John Hollingsworth of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and contralto Maureen Forrester.

Leonard Camplin has conducted in the presence of Royal Family members including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Prince Charles. Other dignatories include Lord Louis Mountbatten, his daughter Patricia, Dr. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Trudeau, President Lyndon Johnson and Governors General Vanier and Mitchener.

National and International artists who have performed under Camplin's baton include Liona Boyd, Anton Kuerti, Maureen Forrester, Tommy Banks, James Campbell, Robert Silverman, Jane Coop, Mary Lou Fallis, George Zukerman, Mark Dubois, Marc Destrube, The Rolston Family, Camilla Wicks, Guy Few, Alain Trudel, Gary Guthman and Fred Davis of CBC fame.

Maestro Camplin is included in the "International Who’s Who in Music", in the "Who’s Who in America (Entertainment)", in the "Who’s Who in Canada" and has been presented with a plaque by the International Biographical Institute, Cambridge, England, for distinguished services to music. He is holder of the Canadian Decoration and Bar, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal and Canada’s 125th Anniversary Commemorative Medal.

Four trees have been planted in Israel by Mr. Mel Kotler of the Jewish National Fund of Canada, in recognition of Leonard Camplin's thirty-two years as music director and conductor of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and on becoming its Conductor Laureate.

He was recently presented with a plaque of honour by the Kelowna Friends of the Arts and made an Honourary Life Member of the Kelowna Choral Concerts Society.