Elaine Keillor

Distinguished Research Professor
School for Studies in Art and Culture
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
tel. 520-2600 x3732

Co-director of University Research Centre: Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education [CIRCLE]

Office: V-SIM 2115 (Visualization and Simulation Building - see "VS" on the Campus Map)

Email: elaine_keillor@carleton.ca

Born in London, Ontario, Elaine Keillor holds the record as the youngest recipient of the Associate (ARCT) degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) with all of the theory exams completed at the age of ten. Becoming the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Toronto, Dr. Elaine Keillor has performed in recitals and as soloist with orchestra on piano and harpsichord throughout North America and in Europe. After teaching at the University of Toronto, York, Queen’s, and McMaster Universities, she has been since 1977 a professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, lecturing on Baroque, Classical periods, Canadian musics, ethnomusicology, keyboard performance and literature.

As principal investigator of the Canadian Musical Heritage Society, Dr. Keillor edited Piano Music I (1983). Piano Music II (1986), Music for Orchestra (1994), and Music for Orchestra III (1995). She is also the author of John Weinzweig: The Radical Romantic of Canada (Scarecrow Press, 1994), and numerous essays in compilations, periodicals, and encyclopedias including the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, The Canadian Encyclopedia, New Grove Dictionary, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Her latest book publication is Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity (McGill/Queen's Press, 2006; paperback, 2008)

In January 1999 she was the inaugural recipient of the Canadian Women’s Mentor Award in the “Arts and Culture” category. Keillor was the 2004 Helmut Kallmann Award recipient for Distinguished Service relating to music libraries and archives, for outstanding contributions in documenting and improving access to resources in Canadian music.

Being the team leader for the production of the websites "Native Drums" launched in June 2005, and “Native Dance” in 2006,  Keillor invites visitors to www.nativedrums.ca and www.nativedance.ca to explore the musical expressions of the First Peoples within Canada.

Her recent recordings, Views of the Piano Sonata [CSCD 1002], “By a Canadian Lady:” Piano Music 1841-1997 [CSCD 1006], Legend of the First Rabbit [Studea Musica], Canadian Compositions for Young Pianists [4 CDs, Studea Musica], Romance: Early Canadian Chamber Music [CSCD 1009] and The Music of Mary Gardiner [Conservatory Canada] have been praised for their “impeccable pianism” and “musicality.”