Leslie Hughes Robertson has lived in the Winchester area since the age of eleven. She graduated from James Wood High School in 1970 and accompanied the choirs there all four years of high school under the direction of Paul S. Thompson. She graduated from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in 1974 with a Bachelor of Music Education degree as a piano major, studying with Eugenia Evans for thirteen years. During her teaching career, she also earned a Master of Music Education degree from George Peabody College for Teachers (now the Education School of Vanderbilt University) in Nashville, Tennesse, in 1978 and a Master of Education in Library Science degree in 1999 from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She served as an educator in Frederick County, Virginia, teaching middle school choral music for nine years and middle school algebra and pre-algebra for fifteen years and then fifteen years as an elementary school librarian in Loudoun County, Virginia. Retiring in 2014 after thirty-nine years of teaching, Leslie relaxed for one year and then started volunteering as a collaborative pianist with voice students at Shenandoah University (SU) for their lessons, juries and recitals. She is completing nine years of pure enjoyment working with "her students and friends" at SU. Leslie lives with her husband, Richard, in Stephens City, Virginia, where they are the proud parents of three daughters, two sons-in-law, one soon-to-be son-in-law, four grandsons, and two grand-dogs. For more than fifty years, she has also sporadically served as a church musician and a private piano teacher. She loves to travel, read, do puzzles, practice the piano (still), and is beginning to enjoy exercise. Tonight, she is wonderfully proud of Dasia and has enjoyed working with Dasia and Dr. Naumenko for the last few years!