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Patricia Wright

Biography
Dr. Patricia Wright was Director of Music and Organist at Metropolitan United Church in Toronto Ontario, from 1986 to May 1, 2022, and was named as Metropolitan's first Minister of Music Emeritus upon her retirement. She held church positions in New Haven and Ottawa and teaching appointments at the University of Ottawa and Queen’s University In Kingston. In September of 2010, she was covenanted as a Congregational Designated Minister of Music, a first in the United Church of Canada. She is Adjunct Professor of Organ for the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, cross-appointed to Emmanuel College for the Master of Sacred Music degree program.

She earned degrees in organ performance from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University. Her teachers included Donald Wilkins, Charles Krigbaum, Nadia Boulanger, Jean Langlais, and Michael Schneider. Dr. Wright has been heard in recital in Canada, the United States, and Europe including the premiere performance of The Toronto Organ Series for the International Congress of Organists in Montreal in 1993.

A founding member of the United Church of Canada Association of Musicians, Dr. Wright is a past national president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists and holds an honorary Fellowship from the RCCO and also from the Summer Institute of Church Music. She has served as a workshop presenter and adjudicator in Canada and the United States and co-lead two tours of historic organs of Germany.

In 2017, Dr. Wright served as a juror in the preliminary round of the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montreal and served as an international juror in the final round of the 2020 CIOC. Ensure that the following sections are organized by year.

Marriage and children
Husband: William Wright


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Discography
Sounds of the Soul, 1998 (CD marking the addition Metropolitan organ's antiphonal division)

.of Gaudete: Christmas by the Metropolitan United Church Choir, 19xx

Touch the Hem of His Garment: Metropolitan United Church Choir, 19xx,

Bach in Time: Let There Be Beauty. Organ works and poetry by Patricia Orr, 2021

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Recognition
Honorary Fellowship, Royal Canadian College of Organists (1997)

Honorary Fellowship, Summer Institute of Church Music

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