Lydia Pederson

PEDERSEN, Lydia. b. Vienna, 29 March 1947. Pedersen emigrated with her family to Montreal in 1953, where she attended elementary and high school while taking lessons in piano, solfege, and organ  at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec in Montreal.  She was director of music at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Montreal, 1963-74, where she started teaching music privately. She has degrees as follows: B.A. in psychology (1971), teaching diploma/elementary (1972), M.Ed in special education (1976) at McGill University, Montreal; B.Mus. in organ performance/church music (University of Toronto, 1987), and DMin (Emmanuel College in the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, 2017); her...