Elaine Keillor

Frances Elaine Keillor (born 2 September 1939) is a Canadian musicologist and pianist. She has been a professor of music at Carleton University since 1977, specializing in the music of Canadian composers and the music of North American indigenous groups.

Early life and education Elaine Keillor was born in London, Ontario in 1939. Her first piano teacher was her mother, Lenore Stevens Keillor, although Keillor has said of her mother, "She said that she could not actually recall teaching me to play the piano as I would just go to the instrument and play what she had been teaching the last student."

Elaine also took lessons with Reginald Bedford, and later with Claudio Arrau and Harold Craxton. She progressed rapidly and at age 10 she earned an ARCT certificate from The Royal Conservatory of Music. At the time, she was the youngest person to receive an ARCT, and her record stood for six decades.

Keillor played in recitals, and as soloist with several orchestras in Canada and the United States. She completed her secondary school education through homeschooling, then moved to Europe for further study and performing,

A chronic hand injury that began around this time curtailed her performing schedule.

She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music from Carleton University in 2016.

Books

With Timothy Archambault and John Medicine Horse Kelly, As editor: Piano music I (1983), Piano music II (1986), Music for orchestra I (1994), Music for orchestra III (1995). Ottawa: Canadian Musical Heritage Society.

Selected discography Piano Music by Torontonians 1834–1984, 1984. By a Canadian Lady: Piano Music 1841–1997, Carleton Sound, 2000. Canadians at the Keyboard, Carleton Sound, 2000. Romance: Early Canadian Chamber Music, Carleton Sound, 2002 Sounds Of North: Two Centuries Of Canadian Piano, Gala Records, 2012 When Music Sounds: Canadian Cello Music – Coulthard, Weinzweig, Guerrero, Archer. (With Joan Harrison, cello.) Naxos Records, 2014. Poetic Sketches. Centrediscs, 2015. Narratives on Life: Music for Cello and Piano – Srul Irving Glick, Steven Gellman, Hélène Riese Liebmann, Maurice Gardner. (With Joan Harrison, cello.) Marquis Classics, 2015.