She an M.Mus in Clarinet Literature and Performance and a Ph.D. in Systematic Musicology, both from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her interest in baroque music stems from her Ph.D. research on music in the English theatre in eighteenth-century London, and she loves the challenge of playing new old music on recorder and baroque clarinet with Per Sonatori. An active chamber music performer, she enjoys commissioning and performing new music with her trio Contrasts (clarinet, violin, and piano). She has toured Europe and South and Central America with the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, and has toured Russia and Central America with Contrasts. For the past 15 years, she has served as assistant principal clarinet with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and presents a pre-concert lecture before every Masterworks Series performance.