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Sylvia Rickard
Sylvia Rickard (born 19 May 1937) is a Canadian composer and pianist. Rickard was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied at the Toronto Conservatory, and received a teaching certificate and a B.A. in French and Russian from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She pursued graduate studies in French at Stanford University and the Universite de Grenoble. She lived in India and Germany until 1972, when she returned to Canada and studied music with Jean Coulthard. Rickard won first prize in piano, as well as a chamber music prize, in the 1975 Okanagan Composers Festival. She was a resident composer in the 1999 Casalmaggiore International Chamber Music Festival in Italy. She is a member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), and the Victoria Composers Collective. Rickard’s music is published by the Canadian Music Centre The Canadian Music Centre was founded in 1959 by a group of Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Conservatory
The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM; ), branded as The Royal Conservatory, is a non-profit music education institution and performance venue headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1886 by Edward Fisher as The Toronto Conservatory of Music. In 1947, King George VI incorporated the organization through royal charter. Its Toronto home was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1995, in recognition of the institution's influence on music education in Canada. Tim Price is the current Chair of the Board, and Peter Simon is the President. History Early history The conservatory was founded in 1886 as The Toronto Conservatory of Music and opened in September 1887, located on two floors above a music store at the corner of Dundas Street (Wilton Street) and Yonge Street (at today's Yonge Dundas Square). Its founder Edward Fisher was a young organist born in the United States. The conservatory became the first institution of its kind in Canada: a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
