Biography

Townsend Losey’s impassioned vision for community integration through excellence in music drives him to conduct vigorous psychologically and spiritually charged concerts. Through his introspective compositions for choral and instrumental ensembles, Townsend celebrates the commonalities and complexities of human experience. Commended by Grant Gershon for his “musical” conducting of Handel’s Dixit Dominus and praised by Richard Burchard for the interpretation of his choral music, Townsend embodies character in music with intuitiveness and depth.

Before finishing his Bachelor of Music degree in Composition at Azusa Pacific University, Townsend founded Ensoma Creative, a small volunteer choir of young choral artists dedicated to collegiality, collaboration, and excellence. Since its conception in 2014, the ensemble has offered fourteen concerts under his leadership, including performances of Fauré Requiem, Drurflé Requiem, and Handel’s Dixit Dominus with professional orchestra and soloists, as well as premieres of dozens of works composed for the ensemble.

At the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, Townsend produced eleven virtual choir projects with Ensoma Creative featuring local visual artists, soloists, songwriters, arrangers, and composers.

Townsend’s undergraduate focus was in choral music with continuous membership in elite academic choirs. To further his reputability in the professional choral world, Losey returned to his studies at the University of Southern California. He is a current Master of Music candidate in Choral Music at the Thornton School of Music, where he studies composition with Frank Ticheli and conducting with Troy Quinn, Tram Sparks, Christian Grases, and Nick Strimple.

Townsend resides in the South Bay with his wife, son and two daughters, and he serves as the Director of Worship Ministries at Ascension Lutheran Church of Ranchos Palos Verdes.