Lesley

Schatzberger
Clarinet
  • A hypnotic and beautifully atmospheric performance of Bill Sweeney’s An Òg-Mhadainn (The Young Morning) with its apparent duets staged over the upper and lower registers of the basset clarinet. Schatzberger’s playing is so creamy you will melt away.
    The Herald (Glasgow)
  • There is some beautiful playing by Lesley Schatzberger of a clarinet that sails cleanly through the textures with a delightfully woody resonance.
    Gramophone
  • The result is a triumph: the most revelatory version of the piece [Brahms Clarinet Quintet] I’ve heard in years; animated, dynamic, passionate, with the greater agility and more focused tone of the Ottensteiner clarinet ideally matched to this approach…. I have no hesitation in naming this the new benchmark.
    BBC Music Magazine

Lesley Schatzberger has been principal clarinet with the English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, London Classical Players, and Academy of Ancient Music, touring across Europe, the United States, and the Far East.  As a member of Stockhausen’s own chamber group she took part in many performances and in recordings over a period of about 12 years.

As well numerous recordings with orchestras, chamber music discs include the clarinet quintets by Mozart and Brahms, the two Konzertstücke for clarinet, basset horn and piano by Mendelssohn, Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock, and Spohr’s Six German Songs.

Lesley teaches at the University of York, by which she was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2006. In 2020 she was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Northern College of Music.

She founded the charity Jessie’s Fund in memory of her nine-year-old daughter. Jessie’s Fund helps children with complex needs by enabling them to use music as a form of communication and expression, working with children’s hospices, schools for children with additional needs, and hospitals across the UK.

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