Elaine Keillor

Elaine Keillor is an internationally known concert pianist, and recently retired as Professor of musicology/ethno-musicology at Carleton University, Ottawa. With all of the theoretical requirements completed at the age of ten, she remains the youngest to have ever received the Associate diploma in piano from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). She can be heard on fourteen CDs released to date that have been praised for their impeccable pianism and artistry. CAML Review wrote that for the recording By a Canadian Lady: Piano Music 1841 – 1997 “Dr. Keillor has admirably designed and performed this compilation, and it stands as a recording of scholarly significance.”

She was the first recipient of the Canadian Women’s Mentor Awards in the category of Arts and Culture (February 1999). A specialist in various areas of Canadian music, she has published biographical and bibliographical studies relating to Canadian musical life in the late 19th and 20th centuries. As well as having published some of the results of her musical research among the Dene First Nations of the Northwest Territories, she has written essays for various encyclopedias and dictionaries including The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America (2001), the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2004). Among her publications are John Weinzweig and His Music: The Radical Romantic of Canada (Scarecrow Press, 1994), four volumes in the Canadian Musical Heritage series, a twenty-five volume set produced by the Canadian Musical Heritage Society, and the piano series of Performing Our Canadian Heritage. She is also the music contributor for the widely used third edition of Profiles of Canada (2003). In 2004 she was named recipient of the 2004 Helmut Kallmann Award of the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres and recently named Distinguished Research Professor at Carleton University.

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Elaine Keillor


Music
Carleton University
Tel: (613) 520-2600 #3732
Fax: (613) 520-3905
E-mail: elaine_keillor@carleton.ca