Sylvia Rickard (born 19 May 1937) is a Canadian composer and pianist. Rickard was born in

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, 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 The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

in Vancouver. She pursued graduate studies in French at

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and the Universite de Grenoble. She lived in India and Germany until 1972, when she returned to Canada and studied music with

Jean Coulthard Jean Coulthard, (February 10, 1908 – March 9, 2000) was a Canadian composer and music educator. She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Ar ...

. 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

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and the

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(SOCAN), and the Victoria Composers Collective. Rickard’s music is published by the

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and Palliser Music Publishing.
See a catalogue of Sylvia Rickard’s works.

Listen to music by Sylvia Rickard.

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