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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 member of the Young Artists Performance Academy faculty. She is an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music and authored the 2007 Cello Syllabus. She also is a member of the Canadian Federation of Adjudicators. Susan is currently Vice-Chair of the Suzuki Association of Ontario and chamber music co-ordinator for the SAA’s bi-annual Conference in Minneapolis. She has taught at Suzuki Institutes in both Canada and the United States and at Music at Port Milford, a chamber music camp for teens, since 1995.