Susan Gagnon holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Western Ontario. Susan was the recipient of a Canada Council grant to attend masterclasses at the Banff School of Fine Arts with Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. She has played with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra since 1983. Susan is a registered Teacher Trainer with the SAA. Ms. Gagnon has been on the faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music since 1984, is currently Suzuki Department Head and is a core...

Toronto Flute School Director – received a BMus in Performance from McGill University and a MMus in Performance from the University of Toronto.
Taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music for 18 years before establishing the Toronto Flute School in 1998. Her teachers have included Louis Moyse, Jeanne Baxtresser and Andre Jaunet. She has also trained extensively in the Suzuki Method, and studied with Toshio Takahashi, founder of the Suzuki Method for Flute. As a founding member of the...

Dimitra Marangozis holds a Performer's and Teacher's ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music and a Preliminary Piano Diploma from the National Conservatory in Athens. She has Suzuki, Orff and Kodaly Teacher's Certificates. Dimitra has pursued further studies in Ethnomusicology and Performance at the University of Toronto and York University. Her teachers included Toula Minetou-Metaxa, Spiro Kizas,...

Gretchen Paxson-Abberger received her undergraduate degree from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied violin with Ariana Bronne, and Burton Kaplan. She completed her Masters degree in Baroque Violin with a full scholarship at the Mannes College of Music’s Historical Performance Department studying with Nancy Wilson. She has performed and recorded with Tafelmusik and Opera Atelier in Toronto, as well as with Artek and Rebel Baroque Orchestra in New York City. Gretchen was part of a...

Nena LaMarre has been teaching piano since the age of fourteen, after obtaining her grade ten certificate from the Royal Conservatory of Music. She received scholarship to study with Boris Berlin at the Conservatory, where she received an ARCT in both piano performance and teaching. She continued her studies with William Aide at the University of Western Ontario, obtaining a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Piano Performance.

Since that time...