Currently Principal Horn of Euphonia Toronto, Roslyn holds a Master's Degree in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston.  She previously attended the University of Victoria for her undergraduate degree (BMus), and the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she pursued a Certificate in Professional Performance Studies.  Her principal teachers include James Sommerville, Joan Watson and Richard Ely. Past summers have seen Roslyn performing at the Tanglewood Music Centre, Spoleto Opera Festival, and the Lucerne Academy Festival in Switzerland.

A member of the New World Symphony in Miami from 2006 to 2010, Roslyn has traveled extensively all over the world and performed with many renowned musicians including Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Williams, John Adams, Audra MacDonald, Norm Lewis, David Allen Grier, Diana Krall, Josh Groban, Frank Sinatra Jr., Roger Hodgson, Sarah MacLachlan and many others. She has appeared onstage with the BBC Symphony at the Barbican in London, BBC Scottish Symphony in Glasgow and Aberdeen, Boston Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, The Cleveland Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony, Regina Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Kingston Symphony, Niagara Symphony and Thunder Bay Symphony, among others.

In 2002, Roslyn was awarded the Grant for Emerging Artists by the Canada Council for the Arts.  She has recorded with many solo artists, including Ron Sexsmith and Mike Evin, and enjoys playing with the wide variety of jazz and pop acts that make their way through Toronto.  She has been on faculty at Miami-Dade College (Miami, FL), Kingsway College School and Upper Canada College (Toronto) the Dana Hall School of Music (Wellesley, MA), and is currently a specialist music instructor at Havergal College in Toronto.  Roslyn has performed as Acting Principal Horn with Atlanta Opera (Atlanta, GA) and Opéra Comique (Paris) and in 2011, was an originating musician in the Tony Award-winning "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess" at the American Repertory Theatre. 

Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Roslyn lives currently in Toronto with her husband and son. 


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