Over time it has transformed into a simple heartbeat-like rhythmic gesture that is slowly built up and deconstructed alongside shifting timbres and colourful noise.
Lesley composes acoustic and electroacoustic music, and currently resides in Calgary, Alberta. She likes writing music that shimmers and glows and floats and crunches and spins out, and does other things too. Her music has been performed and workshopped across North America and Europe by various ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Arditti String Quartet, Sound Icon, Land’s End Ensemble, Ensemble Resonance, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, l’Orchestre de la Francophonie, Ensemble l’Arsenale, Strata Ensemble, Violet Collective, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Her works have also been showcased in numerous festivals including Third Practice (Virginia), the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute (Ottawa), Composit (Italy), Strata Festival (aka Sask New Music), Toronto Creative Music Lab, New Music Edmonton’s ‘Now Hear This’ Festival, and at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Lesley received her Doctorate in Composition at Boston University in 2014, studying under Joshua Fineberg. She also has her Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Calgary, and Masters of Music from the University of British Columbia. From 2011-2014 Lesley co-founded and organized the Boston-based concert series Acoustic Uproar, which promoted emerging composers and performers in the programming of contemporary music outside of academia and the concert hall.
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