Leslie Grimm

Clarinet | Chicago, IL

Leslie Grimm is one of Chicago's most prominent freelance clarinetists and has performed with the area's most distinguished ensembles, including the St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Grant Park Symphonies, as well as with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Music of the Baroque, the Chicago Philharmonic, and the Chicago Sinfonietta. She has frequently appeared with the Joffrey Ballet and the American Ballet Theater. She has actively worked in the commercial recording industry for such corporations as McDonald's, United, Anheuser-Busch, Allstate, Arthur Anderson, and Kellogg Company and has recorded on the Teldec, Koss, Centaur, Fanfare, and Pro-Arte labels. Her first teaching experiences were at Northern Illinois University and at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.  In 1997 she joined the Bienen School of Music faculty at Northwestern University, teaching clarinet and coordinating the wind chamber program. Leslie loves all thing outdoors and has a super cool Boston Terrier named Zoe.