Elisabeth Stimpert holds degrees in clarinet, music theory, and music education from the Eastman School of Music and The Ohio State University. She started playing the clarinet in the fifth grade in West Chester, Ohio, and has been a musical adventurer ever since, performing concerts all across the United States, Europe and Japan. Her principal teachers have included Kenneth Grant, James Pyne, and Eugene Marquis. Currently, Ms. Stimpert serves as Professor of Clarinet at Dickinson College, Bucknell University, and Kutztown University.

She is also a founding member of Alarm Will Sound, appearing frequently as clarinetist and bass clarinetist with this critically-acclaimed new music ensemble. During Alarm Will Sound’s 2005-06 concert season, Ms. Stimpert appeared as clarinet soloist in performances of John Adams’s Gnarly Buttons, earning recognition by the Boston Globe as a “nimble-fingered, supple-toned soloist.”

Prior to settling in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Ms. Stimpert was principal clarinetist of the Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestra from 2000-2004. As a member of the orchestra’s woodwind quintet-in-residence, the West Texas Winds, she toured extensively in Texas and New Mexico performing to appreciative audiences in schools, malls, concert halls, gazebos, and even once on an ice rink!

She continues to perform as an orchestral clarinetist on a freelance basis in New York and Pennsylvania, and often appears in collaborative recital performances with her faculty colleagues.