Education
As a teenager Boyd took private lessons with Andrés Segovia, as well as with Eli Kassner, Narciso Yepes, Alirio Díaz and Julian Bream.
In 1972 Boyd graduated with honours from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Performance. The same year she won the Canadian National Music Competition, held in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. In 1972 Boyd toured England with British guitarist John Mills.
From 1972–1974, she studied privately in Paris with Alexandre Lagoya, the renowned French classical guitarist.
In 1973, while studying with Lagoya, she busked on the streets of Nice for extra money. She also performed recitals in Belgium and Holland during this period. In Paris she performed at the Canadian Cultural Center and the American Cathedral.
Boyd has honorary doctorates from the University of Lethbridge, University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University, Brock University and the University of Victoria.
She has won the Juno Award for Instrumental Artist of the Year five times.
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