| List of Honorary Presidents | |
| Helen Dahlstrom, Trail, BC | |
| 2019 - 2025 | Ernst Schneider, Penticton, BC |
| 2025 - | Peggy L'Hoir, Biggar, SK |
Peggy L’Hoir is an enthusiastic and innovative teacher, clinician, collaborative artist, examiner, and composer. At the local, provincial and national level, her priorities and passions are based upon connection, community, and collaboration.
For over five decades, Peggy has shared her joy of music with students. A firm believer in lifelong learning, she embraces every opportunity to discover more about the art of teaching, performing, and composing.
Peggy believes music can be enjoyed by everyone. This belief has led her in many directions, including: choral/orchestral directing local musicals, keyboard playing in pop/jazz ensembles, composing, and spearheading many community and provincial projects such as From Prairie to Pine – Piano Solos by Saskatchewan Composers, CNCM Summer Sizzle Keyboard Kamp and Pedagogy Symposium – Biggar, West Central Contemporary Showcase, and Heart of the City Piano Program.
She has served various organizations including the Sask Arts Board, Biggar Music Festival, Biggar Majestic Theatre, West Central Registered Music Teachers, Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects. Peggy is past president of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers and the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers Associations.
With much gratitude to her many colleagues and mentors, over the years Peggy has received the following awards: RCM 40 Years of Dedicated Service Award (2019), SMFA Adjudicating Excellence Award (2022), CFMTA Hugheen Fergusson Distinguished Teaching Award (2024), and presently, is appreciative and humbled to serve as the CFMTA Honorary President.
Favorite pastimes include music making, reading, fishing, crafting and spending time with her extended family and friends.
Peggy L’Hoir est une pédagogue, clinicienne, artiste collaboratrice, examinatrice et compositrice enthousiaste et novatrice. À l’échelle locale, provinciale et nationale, ses priorités et ses passions reposent sur la connexion, la communauté et la collaboration.
Depuis plus de cinquante ans, Peggy partage sa joie de la musique avec ses élèves. Convaincue de la valeur de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie, elle saisit chaque occasion d’en apprendre davantage sur l’art d’enseigner, de jouer et de composer.
Peggy croit que la musique est à la portée de tous. Cette conviction l’a menée dans de nombreuses directions, notamment la direction chorale et orchestrale de comédies musicales locales, la participation en tant que claviériste dans divers ensembles pop et jazz, la composition, ainsi que la mise sur pied de nombreux projets communautaires et provinciaux, tels que From Prairie to Pine – Piano Solos by Saskatchewan Composers, le CNCM Summer Sizzle Keyboard Kamp and Pedagogy Symposium à Biggar, le West Central Contemporary Showcase et le Heart of the City Piano Program.
Elle a mis son expertise au service de nombreuses organisations, dont le Sask Arts Board, le Biggar Music Festival, le Biggar Majestic Theatre, les West Central Registered Music Teachers et l’Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects. Peggy a également été présidente de la Fédération canadienne des professeurs de musique (CFMTA) et de l’Association des professeurs de musique de la Saskatchewan (SRMTA).
Reconnaissante envers ses nombreux collègues et mentors, Peggy a reçu au fil des ans plusieurs distinctions : le RCM 40 Years of Dedicated Service Award (2019), le SMFA Adjudicating Excellence Award (2022), le CFMTA Hugheen Fergusson Distinguished Teaching Award (2024). Elle occupe actuellement, avec humilité et gratitude, le poste de présidente honoraire de la CFMTA.
Parmi ses passe-temps favoris figurent la pratique musicale, la lecture, la pêche, l’artisanat et les moments passés avec sa grande famille et ses amis.