Malcolm Leitch - Soldier-Soloist

Baritone Malcolm's singing career began at Chichester Cathedral (UK) as a boy chorister. Since then, he has sung for eight years as Bass Lay Clerk at ChristChurch Cathedral (NZ), and has recently returned to New Zealand after an extended period singing in the UK, primarily based at Chelmsford Cathedral as Bass Lay Clerk. During this time he also sang at the Cathedrals of St Paul's (London), Canterbury, York Minster, Ely, Christ Church (Oxford), Worcester, Winchester and Chichester, and at the Cambridge Colleges of Kings and St John's.

Malcolm additionally was a well known and in-demand concert soloist in the London and East Anglia regions, with performed repertoire including Handel's Messiah, Orff's Carmina Burana, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, Fauré, Durufle and Mozart's Requiems, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Bach's St. John Passion and St. Matthews Passion, and Duke Ellington's Sacred Music. In addition to being the principal bass soloist at Chelmsford Cathedral, Malcolm also performed regular recitals around the region, including song cycles, cantatas and lieder by composers such as Rachmaninov, Schubert, Bach, Vaughan Williams, Purcell and Britten. Malcolm has performed, recorded and live, on television and radio, and has featured on various CD recordings, in both the UK and New Zealand.

Now based in Christchurch, Malcolm has performed with various regional groups around the country since his return, across the classical repertoire and in opera, including Handel's Messiah, Bach's St. Matthew's Passion, Mozart's Requiem and Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Malcolm has a variety of upcoming engagements around New Zealand across the major centres in opera and as a concert soloist.