Lesley Hinger

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Lesley Hinger is a Calgary-based composer, arts administrator, and educator. Her works have been performed across North America and Europe by various ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Arditti String Quartet, Sound Icon, Land’s End Ensemble, Ensemble Resonance, Ensemble l’Arsenale, Strata Vocal Ensemble, the Violet Collective, Caution Tape Sound Collective, and Vertixe Sonora.

Lesley’s works have also been showcased in numerous festivals and events including Third Practice (Virginia), National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute (Ottawa), Composit New Music Festival (Italy), Strata New Music Festival, Toronto Creative Music Lab, New Music Edmonton’s Now Hear This Festival, Ensemble Evolution at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and as the soundtrack to a haunted house at École Westlock Elementary.

Lesley was the co-Artistic Director of New Works Calgary alongside Rebecca Bruton from 2020-2022, and co-directed the Acoustic Uproar concert series with fellow composer Heather Stebbins in Boston from 2011-2014. She holds a Doctorate of Music in Composition from Boston University, a Masters of Music from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Calgary. Lesley is also an instructor in music theory and composition in the School of Performing & Creative Arts at the University of Calgary.