Canadian flutist Todd Skitch joined the Memphis Symphony in 1997 after completing degrees at the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where he studied flute with Timothy Hutchins, Principal Flute of the Montreal Symphony and Nora Shulman, Principal Flute of the Toronto Symphony.  Before Memphis Mr. Skitch performed with Canadian orchestras including the Niagara Symphony, the Kitchener/Waterloo Symphony, the Windsor Symphony and the National Ballet of Canada.  A Tanglewood Fellow in 1996, he also attended Kent/Blossom (Maurice Sharp Award for outstanding flute applicant), Spoleto USA, Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, CO, the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival and the Banff Center for the Arts. 

Todd loves to teach and play chamber music.  His specialty is preparing young flutists for All West, Youth Symphony and college auditions and he serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Memphis Youth Symphony Program.  He performs with the MSO Woodwind Quartet, the Renaissance Music Circle, the IRIS Orchestra, which he joined in its first season in 2000, the Memphis Chamber Society and the Bellingham Festival of Music since 2008.  Mr. Skitch has been heard on CBC Radio-Canada, WKNO Memphis, as a soloist with both the Memphis Symphony and IRIS Orchestra and has played substitute/extra flute with the Atlanta, Minnesota, Virginia and Alabama Symphony Orchestras.  His favorite flute players today are Timothy Hutchins, Christina Smith, Joanna G'Froerer and Emmanuel Pahud and he has performed in many masterclasses by great flute pedagogues Samuel Baron, Carol Wincenc, Peter Lloyd, William Bennett and Jean-Pierre Rampal.

The 2010-2011 season features Todd in J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 with the MSO in October and in Claude Debussy's Trio for flute, viola and harp with the Memphis Chamber Society in May.