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