Patricia Blomfield Holt was a Canadian composer

Composer

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, pianist

Pianist

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, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre

Canadian Music Centre

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 and a member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, her compositions have been performed by notable musical ensembles throughout North America and Europe. In 1938 she won the Vogt Society Award for the best music composition for her Suite No. 1 for violin and piano. Her Lyric Piece No. 2 was recorded by Jeremy Findlay

Jeremy Findlay

Jeremy Findlay is a Canadian cellist who has had an active international performance career in both the concert and chamber music repertoire since the mid 1980s. He is married to the pianist Elena Braslavsky with whom he has actively performed and recorded works since 1994...

 and Elena Braslavsky

Elena Braslavsky

Elena Braslavsky is an American pianist of Russian birth who has had an active international performance career in both the concert and chamber music repertoire since the early 1980s...

 and her Legend of the North Woods was recorded by the University of Calgary Orchestra

University of Calgary

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Born Patricia Blomfield in Lindsay, Ontario

Lindsay, Ontario

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, Blomfield Holt began her career in her teenage years as a largely self-taught composer and pianist. She entered The Royal Conservatory of Music at the age of 19 where she studied and taught concurrently for ten years. She was a pupil there of Norman Wilks, Hayunga Carman, Norah de Kresz, and Healey Willan

Healey Willan

Healey Willan, was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano...

. She left the RCMT in 1939 at the time of her marriage, but returned to the school's faculty in 1954 teaching courses in music history

Music history

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, music theory

Music theory

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, music composition, and piano performance. She retired from the faculty in 1985.