1970           B.C. Teaching Certificate                   University of British Columbia

1961-63     Graduate studies (French literature)     Stanford University

1960-61     Graduate studies                                University of British Columbia

1960           Diplôme des études françaises        Université de Grenoble

1959           Bachelor of Arts (French/Russian)  University of British Columbia


 

1987-88     Musicology                                           University of Victoria

1978-79     Composition                                         Banff Centre

1973-75     Composition                                         Shawnigan Lake Summer School of the Arts

1973-77     Composition                                         Private studies with Jean Coulthard

 

2005-          B.C.R.M.T.A.: Teacher of Composition membership

1996-          Canadian League of Composers

1993-          Canadian Music Centre: Voting member

1990-          Canadian Music Centre: Associate Composer

 

 
1993-98      Instructor, French diction. Camosun Program, Victoria Conservatory of
                      Music,Victoria, B.C. 

1975-2000 President, Eagle Valley Stables, Ltd., Victoria, B.C.

1987-1999 Founder and administrator, University of Victoria Murray Adaskin Scholarship
                    Concerts, Victoria. B.C.

1984-86     Coordinator of Music Programs. Christ Church Cathedral Completion Fund, 
                    Victoria, B.C. 
 
1974-80     President, Capital City Tally Ho Sightseeing Company, Ltd., Victoria, B.C.

197 1-73    Instructor, Frenchlextracurricular music, North Surrey Senior Secondary
                    school,Surrey, B.C.

1961-62     Writer/researcher. Vancouver Daily Province, Vancouver, B.C.

1961           Staff writer, Bend Bulletin. Oregon

 

2011           Adjudicator, Composition, Canada Music Week for the BCRMTA. 

2009           March 29,  Adjudicator,composition,  Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival

2007           Adjudicator, composition, Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival

2003           Adjudicator. composition, B.C. Registered Music Teachers’ Association

2002           Jury member. B.C. Arts Council Commissioning Grants for Composer

2002           Adjudicator, composition, Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival

2000           Adjudicator, composition, Okanagan Composers’ Festival

1999           Composer in Residence, Oberlin in Casalmaggiore, Italy

1997           Jury member, composition, Canada Council for the Arts

1996           Adjudicator, composition, B.C. Registered Music Teachers’ Association
                    Composition Competition

1996           Adjudicator, composition, Victoria Music Festival

1995           Adjudicator, composition, B.C. Registered Music Teachers’ Association
                    Composition Competition

1992-97     Music Committee, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, B.C.

1989-1995 Board of Directors, Women in Music, Vancouver, B.C.

1986-96     Board of Directors, Okanagan Composers’ Festival

1976-78     Adjudicator, composition, Okanagan Composers’ Festival

 

2009, Rarescale, for flute and harp, alto flute and harp, flute and piano, and alto flute and piano, The Avondale Press, Vancouver 
 

2008, Rarescale, for flute(s) and piano, and for flute(s) and harp,
by The Avondale Press, Vancouver, B.C.

Summertime:  Five Cello Pieces for Children (Alberta Keys, 2002)

Cello Music for Children (in: Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects, 2001)

Songs of the Loon (Avondale Press, 1999)

Ile de Ré(Avondale Press, 1998)

Four Indian Songs (Waterloo Music, 1989)

L’Arc-en-Ciel for harp (New West Coast Composers, West Coast Review, 1986)

A la Jeunesse (French edition, Waterloo Music, 1984)

Five Piano Pieces (In: A Student’s Guide to Musical Form, Waterloo Music, 1981)

Music of Our Time (French edition, Waterloo Music. 1978)

Rarescale, for alto flute and piano, on cd NEW MUSIC NORTH: First Recording, 2008

 

Nagareboshi, for solo piano, on cd A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN MUSIC, 2008   

 

O Holy Night,  arranged for harp and marimba by Sylvia Rickard and performed by Josh and Robin Layne (on ‘Christmas Time” CD 2001)  

 

Songs of the Loon,  for clarinet and 'cello, on cd COASTAL WAVES, 1998    

 

1999            Resident Composer, Oberlin international Festival, Casalmaggiore,
                     Lombardy, Italy
                           
1978            Scholarship, Banff Centre Composers’ Workshop

1977            Okanagan Composers’ Festival, Honourable Mention, Ile de Ré

1975            Okanagan Composers’ Festival, First Place (shared), Sonata for Oboe and
                      Organ)

1974            Okanagan Composers’ Festival, First Place (shared), open class Estival
                      (a.k.a.Ballet Sonatina)
                            

2011        CLARION CALLS for bass clarinet and string orchestra. Commissioner: Gordon Clements.
Premiere: October 23, 2011, on concert 7 NEW WORKS, Gordon Clements, bass clarinet; 13 strings of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Vernon. Alix Goolden Hall.

2010         Brise Marine, (poem, E Stéphane Mallarmé) for soprano, oboe and piano. Duration: 6 minutes. Commissioned by Graeme Wilkinson, for the Graduate Studies programme, Concordia University, Montréal.

2007         Rebecca Danard has commissioned 15 Canadian composers to write a short        piece for solo clarinet, for her DMA degree in Cincinnatti, Ohio. Rickard will base her piece on 2 extended techniques; single note trills and pitch bending. Ms. Danard intends to publish these 15 pieces as a collection of teaching pieces, and possibly, to record these pieces for students, and to present them in concert form. All composers must complete the compositions by September, 2008. Each piece features one or two extended techniques for B Flat clarinet. 
      
2005            New Music North: Tuning to Spirit
2002            Roger Honeywell: Three Rilke Songs
2002            Barbara Ebbeson: Three Cabaret Songs
2000            Catherine Lewis/Christine Prince: Lullaby
2000            Canadian Music Centre, B.C. Millennium Project: Buttercup Fields
1999            Taras GaboralGaelyne Gabora: The Bells of Casalmaggiore
1998            Christopher Ross-Ewart: My Grouchy Cat
1995            Christoph Both: Songs of the Loon
1995            Nonalee Dong: Love Flowers of Chinese Courtesans
1993            Patricia Kostek: with every breath you take...
1990            Wolfgang Brunnwieser: Kuer für Wolfgang
1986            Victoria International Festival of Music: The Five Elements
1975            CBC: Music for a play by Otto Lowy about Franz Kafka

2010           Oct. 26,  Christian Tatonetti interviews Sylvia Rickard on his programme on
                    CILS Francophone station ,Victoria, BON MATIN, Subject: recent 3 concerts
                    involving Belle-Mere, Jean Coulthard and Claude Treil.
 

2009            March 18, Radio Canada, Vancouver: interview with Yolaine Mottet on
                     programme Le Pont des Arts, 97.7 fm       
 

2008           August 11, CBC Radio , "On the Island";  producer, Peter Hutchinson.
                    NAGAREBOSHI, First movement;Toshiko Tampo, piano (from cd:A Celebration
                    of Canadian Composers).

2005            CBC Radio 1, Thunder Bay, Ontario: Interview on "Voyage North" by
                     producer/announcer Gerald Graham re New Music North Festival

2004            Société Radio Canada, Vancouver: Interview on “Bon Jour” (producer, Denis
                     Bouchard) by announcer Denis Couture re Sonic Boom Festival and
                      “Answering the Call”

2003            CBC/Radio Canada: Partial performance of “Songs of the Loon” (2001) on
                      “Take Five,” Shelley Soames, host

2000            Life Fellow, International Biographical Society, Cambridge, England

2000            SOCAN Words and Music Magazine: Feature article: Concert of works, by Rick
                     Macmillan

2000            Selected by International Biographical Society as one of 2,000 most
                     outstanding musicians of the 20th century

1999            Casalmaggiore Newspaper: Article on Oberlin Conservatory in Casalmaggiore

1998            Lecturer with William Bruneau and David Gordon Duke, “Jean Coulthard as
                     Mentor,” University of Victoria Women of Notes series; Subject of lecture on
                     chamber works by Dr. Jean Sloop, voice faculty, Kansas State University  

1997            Subject of lecture by David Gordon Duke, Santa Rosa Community College,
                     Santa Rosa, California

1996            University of Victoria Radio (CFUV) on International Women’s Day: Interview
                     and extract from opera
               

1995            University of Victoria Music School Graduate Colloquium guest lecture: “A
                     Composer’s Choices”

1993            Radio Canada “Vents d’ouest,” Sylvia L’Ecuyer: Interview on Jean Coulthard

1992            University Qf Victoria Radio (CFUV), “The Classical Show,” Suzanne
                     Edmondson:Interview on International Women’s Day
               

1991            Guest lecturer, University of Victoria Music Department, on women and music;
                     interview by Brian Jull on CFUV’s Noon Hour Magazine; interview on BCTV’s
                     Ida Clarkson Show

1989            Guest on Radio Canada’s “Horizon,” Sylvia L’Ecuyer, producer; guest on CFRO
                     (Co-op radio, Vancouver), “Women of Note,” ma Dennekamp, producer

1988            Subject of conversation on Public Radio station KWMU, St. Louis, Missouri, by
                     Taras and Gaelyne Gabora re CASA string faculty recital

1982            Profile article by David G. Duke in Music magazine, Toronto

1978            Guest panelist on the creative arts, Banff Centre

1972            Guest on CBUF-FM, Vancouver, Simon Boivin, producer

     

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