Leslie Kinton is a professor of piano performance at Western University. Kinton is one of Canada’s best-known and most sought-after chamber musicians and is a founding member of ARC (Artists of the Royal Conservatory), the resident chamber ensemble of The Glenn Gould School. 

Leslie Kinton was born in Toronto and studied the piano with Pierre Souvairan, as well as composition with Samuel Dolin. He also studied the piano in New York City with Jeaneane Dowis and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. He has a Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Schenkerian analysis; his dissertation was an exhaustive study of Dvořák’s Symphony #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. In 2019, Anagnoson & Kinton were named Honorary Fellows of The Royal Conservatory of Music. The designation of Honorary Fellow, the highest designation conferred by the organization, is awarded to a distinguished group of individuals and organizations who have made an extraordinary contribution to arts and culture in Canada and beyond. 2026 marks their 50th year as a piano duo.