Laurel Swinden

Name:	Laurel Swinden
Location:	Waterloo, Ontario CA N2K 3Y4
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Avanti Flutes Artist Laurel Swinden maintains an active career as a performer, pedagogue and researcher. Principal Flute of the Stratford Symphony Orchestra since 2004, she has also performed with Orchestra London, Georgetown Bach Chorale, and the Memphis, Tupelo, Mississippi, Kingston, Scarborough, and Oakville Symphonies. Ms. Swinden performs on chamber music series throughout Ontario with pianist Stephanie Mara, and the newly formed xTrio (flute, clarinet and piano).

Laurel is a Doctoral Candidate in Flute Performance and Fellowship recipient at the University of Toronto, where she studied with Nora Schulman and Alison Melville (traverso). Ms. Swinden has undertaken additional baroque flute study at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and, over several summers, both Baroque and traditional music with Chris Norman and guest artists at the Boxwood Festival in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Past influential teachers include Jeffrey Zook, Jim Walker, Lisa Beznosiuk, Philippe-Alain Dupré, Fiona Wilkinson and Kathleen Rudolph. Her dissertation examines eighteenth-century Scottish flute literature. Ms. Swinden has been the recipient of both performance and academic awards and grants, including awards from the Canadian Federation of University Women, David and Marcia Beach Study Award, Tafelmusik scholarship, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Music Scholarship Foundation.

Laurel has been a Sessional Instructor of Flute at the University of Guelph since 2008, where she enjoys working with students from diverse backgrounds, both music majors and minors. Ms. Swinden has coached chamber ensembles and directed the Flute Ensemble at the University of Toronto from 2007 - 2009 and Laurel held a faculty position at the University of Mississippi from 1998 - 2002.

Having taught flute privately for over 15 years, Ms. Swinden's private students have won many awards, and been accepted to university music programs at New York University, McGill University, Wilfrid Laurier University, Acadia University, and the University of Western Ontario. Laurel Swinden also founded directs the Waterloo-Wellington Flute Ensemble, a community flute choir open to flute enthusiasts of all ages. Ms. Swinden teaches summers at the Kincardine Summer Music Festival, in Kincardine, Ontario.

Ms. Swinden serves as a National Winds Examiner for Conservatory Canada and adjudicates at music festivals in Ontario. She has performed and presented workshops across the United States and Canada, with performances broadcast on NPR, premiering several works for flute, and flute with electronics.

Will Teach:

Intermediate Grades, Advanced Grades, Diploma / Higher Levels