Leslie Kwan is a Guyanese American entrepreneur, author and harpsichordist. She grew up with Lincoln Center as her playground and American Pop music as her soundtrack.
In addition to founding her own French baroque chamber orchestra L’Académie, and her pioneering chamber music series at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, highlights of Leslie’s career includes sales at CHANEL and marketing at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In Autumn 2019, Ms. Kwan moved to UK and founded MonarchMusic, an organisation that produced chamber music concerts exclusively for cancer and pediatric hospitals in London.
Leslie made her debut as an author on January 24, 2023. A IS FOR ARETHA is an ABC primer that features 26 Black female musicians who use their music as a form of activism.
It’s the kind of book that Leslie wished had been available to her as a young musician.