Lyell Gustin

Lyell Gustin (May 31, 1895 – February 8, 1988) SOM was a pianist, teacher and adjudicator active in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from 1920 to the mid-1980s.

He was educated there and at Stanstead College, where in 1912 he graduated with the highest marks in Canada for music diploma examinations.

During the next four years, he studied with Jeannette Durno (a Canadian-born pupil of Theodor Leschetizky) in Chicago, and with Madeley Richardson in New York City and London.

Returning to Saskatoon in 1920, he established the Lyell Gustin Piano Studios, operated out of his house that was built the same year.

[1] Gustin held monthly recitals where his music students were exposed to other forms of art, such as painting and literature.