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A native of Germany, Sibylle Marquardt moved to Canada in 1997 where she established herself as a chamber musician to reckon with. She is a member of the ERGO ensemble, specializing in modern music, as well as the Trio D'Argento and Duo Resonance with whom she performs regularly all over Ontario. In Germany she was a founding member of Trio Resonance, which was an established ensemble at numerous high-profile concert venues and festivals throughout Germany and Switzerland.

Sibylle’s teachers include Hermann Klemeyer, Wolfgang Schulz, Trevor Wye, Geoffrey Gilbert and Aurele Nicolet. She has performed in Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Italy, former Czechoslovakia and France, as well as for Radio Canada, the BR Munich and TV and movie productions.

Her orchestral career began at the early age of 23, when she was regularly hired as 2nd flute/piccolo with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Munich under Sir Colin Davis, touring to Italy and Japan. She went on to join the orchestral program of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and held a solo flute/solo piccolo position at the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a substitute player with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Deutsche Kammer Philharmonie Bremen, Gaertnerplatz Theater Munich, Bern and Biel Symphony Orchestras. She has also played with the Windsor Symphony, the Toronto Philharmonia and the Oshawa Durham Symphony amongst others, as well as in the Phantom of the Opera and the Beauty and the Beast in Toronto.

She is a member of the faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music and a member of the National College of Examiners of the RCM and is artist in residence of the Etobicoke School for the Arts. Sibylle's website is www.silverflute.ca