2025 Adjudicators

Patricia Dydnansky currently holds the position of Second Flute & Piccolo with the Niagara
Symphony and teaches at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts at Brock
University while maintaining a private studio in Toronto. She is an active freelance musician,

playing flute and piccolo with the Hamilton Philharmonic, Kingston Symphony, Kitchener-
Waterloo Symphony, London Symphonia, Shaw Festival Orchestra, the Stratford Festival

Orchestra, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Windsor Symphony, and various smaller
ensembles in the Greater Toronto Area.
She has been a substitute musician at the Shaw Festival on flute & piccolo for My Fair Lady
(2011 & 2024), The Secret Garden (2024), Brigadoon (2019 & 2023), on various flutes & clarinet
in "Sweeney Todd" (2016) at Shaw, and "Sousatzka" (2017) at the Lord Elgin Theatre in Toronto.
As a faculty member at the MIWSFPA, Patricia has regularly performed solo & chamber music
recitals on the Music@Noon and Encore! Professional concert series since joining the Music
Department in 2002.
Patricia has a Bachelor of Music (Music History & Theory) from McMaster University, a Master
of Music (Performance) from the University of Western Ontario and a Postgraduate Diploma
(Performance) from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. She has
participated in the Professional Residency Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts and
continued her education as both a participant and instructor at the Scottish International Flute
Summer School for 14 years. Her teachers include Peter Lloyd, Patricia Morris, Paula Elliott,
Camille Churchfield, Wissam Boustany and Ian Clarke.