Leslie Kinton
Leslie Kinton was born in Toronto and studied the piano with Pierre Souvairan and Boris Berlin, as well as composition with Samuel Dolin. He also studied the piano in New York City with Jeaneane Dowis and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Mr. Kinton has a PhD in music theory from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Schenkerian analysis. His dissertation was an exhaustive study of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 with two of the world’s most renowned Schenkerian theorists, David Beach and Edward Laufer.
From 1976 to the present, as a member of the Anagnoson & Kinton piano duo, Leslie Kinton has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. The duo has played with the major orchestras across Canada including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Victoria Symphony, and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. They have a discography of nine recordings. Anagnoson & Kinton are on CBC radio almost every week, and they have also broadcast on the BBC, National Public Radio in the U.S.A., Hilversum Radio in Holland, Hong Kong Radio, and Radio Suisse Romande. In December 2004, they had an eight-concert tour of China. They returned for another eight concerts in October of 2006. In December 2007, Anagnoson & Kinton performed in Prague as part of the annual Martinů Festival in the Czech Republic. In October 2008 they gave recitals and masterclasses in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of the 8th Annual Conservatory Festival in Glazunov Hall.
Leslie Kinton is one of Canada’s best-known and most sought-after chamber musicians. Fellow artists he has performed with include Bryan Epperson, the St. Lawrence Quartet, the Madawaska Quartet, Martin Beaver, Ifor James, Joel Quarrington, the Amici Chamber Ensemble, Erika Raum, Steven Dann, Mark Fewer, Dennis Brott, James Sommerville, James Campbell, Joaquin Valdepeñas, Raymond Luedeka, Avram Galper, Nora Shulman, the York Winds, and actor Colin Fox (for Strauss’s Enoch Arden).
Mr. Kinton is a founding member of ARC (Artists of the Royal Conservatory), the resident chamber ensemble of the Glenn Gould School. He is on the faculties of both the Don Wright Faculty of Music at The University of Western Ontario and the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
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