2024 Guest Clinician
Jack Chen

Taiwanese-born Canadian flutist Jack Chen lives and performs in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jack’s love of chamber music has brought him to the stages of concert series all across the Maritimes, and he has premiered works by many Canadian composers. He appears frequently with Symphony Nova Scotia, Scotia Chamber Players as well as Inner Space Concerts, a chamber concert series he founded in 2014.

Jack earned his degrees in flute and early music performance from Indiana University and the University of British Columbia. He has shared the stage with artists such as Jeanne Lamon, Bobby McFerrin, and Sir James Galway and has also appeared in numerous PBS television music specials and tours.

In addition to performing, Jack is the Artistic Director of Inner Space Concerts, is on the faculty at the Acadia University School of Music, and is the General Manager of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra. While not playing the flute or teaching, Jack can be spotted enjoying the great outdoors of the East Coast kayaking, biking and skiing!

Past Guest Artist Adjudicators

The Syrinx Flute Festival would like to thank the outstanding guest artists who have performed and adjudicated at the Festival. We would also like to thank all the local adjudicators (not listed below) who have helped make Syrinx possible since 1985. 

Masterclass with Rhonda Larson, 2018
​From left to right: Nicole Carbotte, Mollin Balisi, Jennifer Arcand, Rhonda Larson, Breanne Collins, Megan Luff, Hannah Song

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2023   Dr. Suzanne Snizek
2022   Kaili Maimets
2021   Lisa-Maree Amos
2020   Jan Kocman and Alex Conway 
​2019   Albert Brouwer
​​2018​   Rhonda Larson
​​2017   Dr. Michelle Cheramy
​2016   Christie Reside
​2015   Sara Hahn
​2014   Leslie Newman
2013   Marianne Gedigian
​2012   Debora Harris
​2011   Patricia Spencer
​2010   Dr. Michelle Cheramy
​2009   Laura Barron
​2008   Helen Blackburn
​2007   Leone Buyse
​2006   David Fedele
​2005   Keith Petway
​2004   Immanuel Davis
​2003   Gwen Klassen
​2002   Lorna McGhee
​2001   Carolyn Christie
​2000   Leslie Newman
​1999   Alexa Still
​1998   Amy Hamilton
​1997   Fiona Wilkinson
​1996   Susan Hoeppner
​1995   Robert Dick
​1994   Marina Piccinini
​1993   Camille Churchfield
​1992   Walfrid Kujala
​1991   Robert Aitken
​1990   Douglas Stewart
​1989   James Pellerite
​1988   Timothy Hutchins
​1987   Thomas Kay
​1986   Fiona Wilkinson
​1985​   Douglas Stewart

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