2025 Adjudicators

Margot Jewell has been immersed in music education for the last 48 years, training with many inspiring pedagogues, including Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto in 1985. She began her Suzuki teaching in Hamilton and then at Etobicoke Suzuki Music (Toronto) which she co-founded in 1982. Margot was honoured to serve on the boards of the Suzuki Association of Ontario and the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She became a teacher trainer for the SAA and has enjoyed working with adults in that capacity. Margot is an active festival adjudicator as well as an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music. She recently retired from teaching students in Toronto and moved with her husband to Huntsville Ontario, where they enjoy hiking, canoeing, skiing and being with grandchildren.