Pianist Patricia Hoy has been featured as a soloist with such orchestras as the Montreal Symphony, Vancouver
Symphony, Quebec Chamber Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra and the Ventura Symphony. She has been a
featured pianist on CBC, PBS and WQXR. As a chamber musician, she is frequently invited to collaborate on
a wide variety of projects ranging from performances of the established repertoire to the commissioning and
performance of new works by North American and European composers. For the 2009/10 season she will be
performing both as a chamber musician and soloist in Canada, California, Alaska and Germany.

In addition to her performing career, Dr. Hoy has served as faculty pianist and program coordinator at the Banff
Centre for the Performing Arts. She is a faculty member at the Young Artists Experience, a summer chamber
music program run under the auspices of the University of British Columbia designed to train and mentor gifted young artists.
Dr. Hoy is also a member of the UBC Faculty of Music where she coaches and lectures on chamber music.

When Patricia was 15 years old, the renowned pianist and teacher John Perry heard her perform and invited her to participate in the Aspen Music Festival that summer. This in turn led to a full scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin where she received her Bachelors degree. She continued her studies with Mr. Perry at the University of Southern California, where in her first year she won the coveted first prize in their concerto competition. Awarded a Graduate Fellowship, Dr. Hoy went on to obtain her Masters and Doctorate Degrees in Piano Performance. She was recognized as the top graduating doctoral student and in the same year was named the most promising young artist in Los Angeles by the Armand Hammer Foundation.

In 2008, Dr. Hoy was invited to serve as Artistic Director of the CoralWind Chamber Music Festival in Ucluelet, B.C. with a mandate to program great works that underscore the unique link between music and nature.