Fergus Macleod is currently a student at Cambridge, where he conducts the Cambridge University Music Society in the major symphonic repertoire, in addition to his role as Music Director of the new and cutting-edge contemporary Ensemble CB3 with whom he gives several world premieres at the West Road Concert Hall and other venues around Cambridge.

Fergus has also conducted the National Youth Orchestra Sinfonietta, the Pindar Ensemble and the Orchestra on the Hill, and, this season, will conduct his first opera, Handel's Xerxes, for the newly formed Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera company, with two performances in Cambridge and two at the Theatre Royal in Bury St. Edmunds. He has also conducted at St. John's Smith Square in London, the CBSO Centre and the Royal Northern College of Music, and, for the past two summers, the Consonance Players at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.