........studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, taking both subjects successfully to postgraduate level, and was awarded three Principal's prizes. She now specialises in oratorio and solo cantatas and is heralded as one of the most versatile young soloists of today, having a vast repertoire of several hundred works ranging from renaissance to contemporary music.

A keen exponent of contemporary music, Lesley-Jane has performed many 20th century works, including Ligeti's highly comic Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures performed in the presence of the composer, as well as giving several world premieres, most notably Ivan Fedele's La chute de la maison Usher with the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris's new Citè de la Musique. Other contemporary music exploits include performing and recording the electronic soprano role in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Resurrection for Collins Classics, and also recording the soprano solos in Carl Rütti's Magnificat and Alpha et Omega for ASV, the latter CD being subsequently awarded "Editor's Choice" in Gramophone.

Also known for her baroque work, Lesley-Jane has sung with various "authentic instrument" groups, including performing and recording the role of Asteria in Handel's opera Tamerlano for TèlèDiffusion de France with Roy Goodman conducting, and taking the role of Ionatha in Alessandro Scarlatti's oratorio Il pugno David, conducted by Ivor Bolton, specially recorded for BBC Radio 3. As a founder member of the Wren Baroque Soloists, she may be heard on their four CDs, which champion the music of Caldara, Peerson and Jeffreys, and which have been critically very well received.