Beverley Diamond

Beverley Anne Diamond (, born 4 June 1948) is a Canadian pianist and feminist ethnomusicologist.

Biography Diamond was born on 4 June 1948 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Diamond studied piano under Clifford Poole and her PhD at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1978. At York University, she was Associate Professor of Music, Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Director of the Graduate Program in Music. She was a visiting professor at Harvard University in 1999. and Scandinavia, such as Inuit and First Nations conventional and improvised song traditions, Algonkian Christian hymns, musical instruments in Native communities, and Lapland’s Sámi joik form of song. She has also studied the musical practices associated with Albanian weddings in the Prespa region and music in Pacific Islands cultures.

Diamond contributed to the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.

Diamond has served on the boards of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Council for Traditional Music She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) in 2008, was named a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in 2009 and was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2012. She received the Gold Medal of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) in 2014.