2023 Guest Clinician
Dr. Suzanne Snizek

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​ A former winner in the national “Flute Talk” Magazine Competition, the UArts Concerto Competition, the New York Flute Club Competition and the Mid-South Young Artist Flute Competition, Dr. Snizek performed with the ESO (National Orchestra of Taiwan) and was an active freelance orchestral and chamber musician in the Philadelphia region before receiving her DMA at UBC (Vancouver) in 2011. Her teachers include Maralyn Prestia-Schaub, Carol Wincenc, Peter Lloyd, Julius Baker, David Cramer and Lorna McGhee.
Currently an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Dr. Snizek joined the UVic faculty as a visiting assistant professor in 2011. In 2016 Dr. Snizek released her critically acclaimed CD entitled “Chamber Music (Re)Discoveries,” and subsequently received the 2017 REACH award for "Excellence in Creative Expression" from the University of Victoria. Continue reading...

For more information, please visit:
https://www.uvic.ca/finearts/music/people/faculty/profiles/snizek-suzanne.php​
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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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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