Lesley Schatzberger has been at the forefront of historical instrument performance whilst also remaining active in a broad range of music making. She was appointed as principal clarinet to Roger Norrington’s London Classical Players and to John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. In addition, she has played regularly with Christopher Hogwood’s Academy of Ancient Music, with which she has also appeared as concerto soloist. At the other end of the musical spectrum she has recorded and toured extensively with Stockhausen’s chamber ensemble. Her recordings include the Clarinet Quintet by Brahms, with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, which been hailed by BBC Music Magazine as ‘the new benchmark’. Lesley’s time is now divided between her playing and the running of Jessie’s Fund, the charity which helps seriously ill and disabled children through the therapeutic power of music as a form of communication. The charity was established in memory of her daughter, Jessica, who died at the age of nine.