2026 Virtual Adjudicators

Jennifer Martyn enjoys a busy career as performer, teacher, and researcher. She holds degrees in violin performance from the University of Toronto (BMus, DMA), and Mannes College (MMus) in New York City. Dr. Martyn’s performance career has taken her across Canada, as well as to Europe and Asia. She has performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kingston, Ottawa, Niagara, and Windsor Symphonies, l’Ensemble Prisme, Duo Felice, and the Talisker Players, including two programs in their acclaimed Journeys in Words and Music chamber music series, and in 2024 joined the violin section of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. She has served as guest concertmaster with several orchestras, including the North York Concert Orchestra, the Talisker Players, and the Arcady Ensemble orchestra. 

A sought-after teacher and adjudicator, Martyn especially loves to work with children, both as a violin teacher and a children’s choir director. She is currently teaching with the North York Suzuki School of Music in Toronto as well as at her private studio in Thunder Bay, and directs the youth choir at Trinity United Church in Thunder Bay.

In her research at the University of Toronto, Dr. Martyn focused on the life and career of the nineteenth-century Swedish violinist and composer Amanda Maier and received numerous awards for her work, including the Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the Palmeson Graduate Fellowship in Violin. She has presented lecture-recitals about her research in Ottawa, Toronto, and Calgary, and in 2017 performed the Canadian premiere of Amanda Maier’s 1891 piano quartet. Dr. Martyn has contributed to the Library of Congress Performing Arts blog “In the Muse” and in 2024 she was interviewed about Amanda Maier on the BBC Radio 3 programme “Composer of the Week.”

Outside of music, Jennifer enjoys good food, game nights, getting out in nature, and spending time with her husband and daughter.