Lesley composes acoustic and electroacoustic music, and her works have been performed and workshopped across Canada, the US, and Italy by various ensembles including the Arditti String Quartet, Sound Icon, Land’s End Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Resonance, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, L’Orchestre de la Francophonie, Ensemble l’Arsenale, Strata Ensemble, the Violet Collective, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Lesley earned her Doctorate in Composition at Boston University studying under Joshua Fineberg, and is the co-founder of the Boston-based Acoustic Uproar concert series. She currently lives in Calgary, AB.