Sally Lesk graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education, as well as Associate of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music in Piano Performance. While at UWO, she was piano accompanist for several instrumental soloists, sang in two university choirs, played bassoon in the Western Symphonic Band, and started a percussion ensemble for non-percussion majors. Sally taught instrumental, strings, and vocal music at the secondary level with the Rainbow District School Board for 30 years, leading numerous award-winning concert bands, jazz ensembles, and vocal ensembles. She is a winner of the General Motors Award for Teaching Excellence. Sally has also worked in the music program at the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre. She has adjudicated at the Northern Ontario Music Festival as well as the Temiskaming Music Festival. Currently retired from the school board, Sally is the charter conductor of the Laurentian University Concert Band in Sudbury, and directed that ensemble from 2008 to 2020. She has been a member of the percussion section of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and has also performed with the North Bay Symphony and the Timmins Symphony Orchestras.