Leon Ko

Leon received a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University. He wrote the musicals Heading East (Richard Rodgers Development Award in the US), Takeaway (London), I Am What I Am (Guangzhou) and Operation Oops (Macau). His Cantonese musicals including The Good Person of Szechwan, Field of Dreams, The Passage Beyond, Sing Out, The Woman in Kenzo and The Impossible Trial have collectively garnered him ten Hong Kong Drama Awards. Leon was the Musical Director of the Mandarin edition of the musical Snow. Wolf. Lake. He was the ambassador of the 2025 Musical Festival at Shanghai Culture Square.

For the film Perhaps Love, Leon won a Golden Horse Award and a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Music. He also won Best Original Song at the Hong Kong Film Awards for The Last Tycoon. He received an ASCAP Screen Music Award in the U.S. for Monster Hunt 2.

Leon curated and composed Time in a Bottle, a perfume bottles exhibition concert performed in Hong Kong and Japan in 2024.  He was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s Artist Associate (2018/19). He received an Outstanding Contribution in Arts Award from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2025.