EDUCATION
- DMA 2011
UBC- Vancouver Lorna McGhee - Post-graduate study David Cramer (Associate Principal Phila. Orch.) 1991-1996
- Master of Music 1990 UArts (Philadelphia) Julius Baker
- Bachelor of Music 1990 Indiana University- Bloomington Carol Wincenc, Peter Lloyd, James Pellerite
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate Professor (since July 2017) University of Victoria
- Assistant Professor (2015-2017) UVic
- Visiting Assistant Professor (2011-2015) UVic
- Senior Lecturer University of the Arts and faculty Settlement Music School (Philadelphia, US)
GUEST PERFORMANCES
- Chamber Music Palisades (Santa Monica, CA) 2025
- University of Nevada-LV lecture-recitalist 2024
- Syrinx Festival featured guest artist 2023
- Featured guest artist Edmonton Flute Society 2019
- Conservatorio de Música del Estado del México (Toluca) 2019
- Suzhou University; Guangzhou Academy and Guangzhou Opera House; East China Normal University- Shanghai (China) 2018
- Loja International Music Festival (Ecuador) 2018
- “Music by the Sea” Festival (Bamfield, BC) 2015
- École Militaire (Paris, France) 2013
- Cambridge University (UK) 2011
ADJUDICATION AND CLINICS
- Grand Prix Competition semi-finals juror since 2022
- Pacific Northwest Music Festival clinician 2022
- Hnatyshyn Foundation Canadian Young Artist Competition adjudicator (Ottawa, ON) 2018, 2019, 2020
- Vancouver Kiwanis Festival adjudicator 2018
- Jury member FACTOR (Foundation Assisting Canadian Artists on Recordings) since 2017
- Mount Royal Conservatory of Music guest residency (Calgary, AB) 2016
- Adjudicator Canadian Flute Association competition (Toronto, ON) 2013
GRANTS, AWARDS, PRIZES
- SSHRC Partnership grant music advisor and recording artist for “Survivor Centred Visual Narratives” 2022-2029
- “Strategic Impact Fund” grant : “Historical Injustices, Current Realities” and “Renewed Voices” IRCPG recording project (Centaur Records label) 2019-2022
- Orion Scholar exchange with Suzhou University (December 2018)
- REACH Research Award: “Excellence in Artistic Expression” University of Victoria 2017
- Forum Voix Étoufées grant (to present in Berlin, DE) 2016
- Jewish Federation Community and UVic Internal Research/Creative Project grants for 2017 CD project
- Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and Chutzpah! Festival grants 2013
- First Prize Mid-South Flute Competition (TN, USA) 1995
- First Prize UArts Concerto Competition Jolivet Concerto (Philadelphia) 1990
- Second Prize New York Flute Club Competition 1990
PUBLICATIONS
- “Music of Resilience” (recording of Hartmann and Raphael) on Centaur label; expected release early 2025
- “Renewed Voices” (recording of works by Raphael, Novak, Pál, Kattenburg, Gál, Denisov, Eben); Centaur Records 2024
- “Chamber Music (Re)Discoveries” Centaur Records 2021
- “The Abyss and The Berries.” In The Impact of Nazism on the Development of Twentieth Century Music, edited by Erik Levi. Wien: Böhlau Verlag (2014).
- “Spiritual Vitamins: Music in Huyton and Central Internment Camps May 1940– January 1941.” In Creativity behind barbed wire: the tangible and intangible heritage of prisoners of war, edited by Gilly Carr and Harold Mytum. New York: Routledge (2012).
- “Music and the Holocaust: British Internment, Music and Hans Gál.” World ORT Music during the Holocaust, edited by Shirli Gilbert. Available at http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/musicians-in-exile/hans-gal/ (2011).
AFFILIATIONS
- Altus Artist http://www.altusflutes.com/artist/suzanne-snizek/
- FACTOR (Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings) adjudicator
- Canadian Flute Association, Seattle Flute Society and National Flute Association
- Centaur label recording artist