Candida Tobin, Hon FTCL, LTCL (5 January 1926-14 December 2008), was the author of the Tobin Method, a music education system for teaching music theory and practice to students of all ages and abilities.

Personal Life

Tobin was born Doreen Pugh in Chingford

Chingford

Chingford is a district of north east London, bordering on Enfield and Edmonton to the west, Woodford to the east, Walthamstow and Stratford to the south and Essex to the north. It is situated northeast of Charing Cross and forms part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest...

, Essex

Essex

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 on 5 January 1926.
She married John Tobin, and had two children, Penelope & David Richard Tobin.

Career

• Studied at the Royal Academy of Music
  Royal Academy of Music
  The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
  
  ; in 1942, aged 16, she became the youngest adult pupil.
• Studied at Trinity College of Music
  Trinity College of Music
  Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban.The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren...
  
   (LTCL)
• Taught in London
  London
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   as peripatetic teacher.
• Began writing on teaching the theory of music through visual interpretations.
• Taught in Hertfordshire
  Hertfordshire
  Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
  
   at a private school, comprehensive school and college of education.
• 1969. Eight books published by Ginn.
• 1970. Advisory teacher to 136 primary schools in Hertfordshire. She bought back book rights and self-published. She later wrote and published thirty books on Tobin System of Music Education.
• 1972. Awarded Honorary Fellowship by Trinity College (Hon FTCL)
• 1974. Lectured at the XIth Conference of the International Society for Music Education in Australia.
• 1976. Lectured at the European Conference for International Schools in Amsterdam.
• 1989. Produced composition programme for use with BBC computer. Lectured in colleges in Great Britain, Europe, Canada, America and Australia.
• 1990. Adapted method for Virgin multimedia CDTV application. Produced Musicolor
• 1992. Musicolor won European award for best educational multimedia programme EMMA
  EMMA
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   and British equivalent BIMA
  Bima
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  .
• 1996. Produced programme for CD-ROM application for Europress
  Europress
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   (Music Key Stages 1 & 2).
• 1998. Wrote musical Cardboard Box Christmas to raise money for the homeless. This was presented at Westminster Abbey
  Westminster Abbey
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   for the crib service. Europress
  Europress
  Europress was a British magazine and software publisher. Their magazine publishing business was previously known as Database Publications.-History:...
  
   taken over by Hasbro – bought back all rights, Tobin Music now produce and distribute Musicolour themselves. Every year, under the auspices of Trinity College of Music ran a series of courses, ranging from infant, primary, secondary school music classes as well as courses on composition, classical guitar, piano and the recorder.
• 2003. The material was successful in its application to be registered as a Content Provider under Curriculum Online and that a contract exists between Candida and the secretary of State.

Death

Tobin died at her UK home in Sawbridgeworth

Sawbridgeworth

Sawbridgeworth is a small, mainly residential, town and also a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.- Location :Sawbridgeworth is four miles south of Bishop's Stortford, twelve miles east of Hertford and nine miles north of Epping. It lies on the A1184 and has a railway station that links to...

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

on December 14, 2008, aged 82, following a two-year battle with cancer.

External links

• The Guardian obituary, 26 January 2009