Jim George began his music training at age five when his father started teaching him the secrets of the clarinet. He earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, studying clarinet with Nestor Koval and Bernard Cerilli. He studied chamber music with Bernard Goldberg and Marcel Moyse and completed his clarinet studies with David Weber in New York. Jim maintains an active solo and chamber music schedule and freelances in San Diego as a woodwind doubler, where he adds flutes and saxes to his arsenal to play Broadway shows.