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
Advanced Musical
Training
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
Affiliations
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
Employment History
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, French/extracurricular 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
Related
Experience
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
Publications
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)
Discography
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
Prizes and Awards
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)
Commissions
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 Gabora/Gaelyne 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
Personal
Appearances, Broadcasts, Published Articles
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,” Ina 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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