Education
The Royal Conservatory of Music.
composer music educator pianist
The Royal Conservatory of Music.
1 for violin and piano. Her Lyric Piece Number. 2 was recorded by Jeremy Findlay and Elena Braslavsky and her Legend of the North Woods was recorded by the University of Calgary Orchestra. Born Patricia Blomfield in Lindsay, Ontario, 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. She retired from the faculty in 1985.
An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, her compositions have been performed by notable musical ensembles throughout North America and Europe.