Southwestern Ontario Suzuki Institute 2025

Versatile as both a soloist and collaborative artist, our 2025 Young Artist Program piano teacher Elaine Lau has performed as a keyboardist and soloist with numerous orchestras and broadcast on CBC Radio 2, National Public Radio (USA) and Rondo Classic (Finland). She has performed with the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Array Ensemble and Contact Contemporary Music. As a solo recitalist, Elaine has been featured on the Canadian Opera Company’s Piano Virtuoso concert series, Arts and Letters Series, the Canadian Music Centre’s On the 13th! Piano Series and at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

A founding member of Toronto’s award-winning junctQín keyboard collective, Elaine regularly premieres new works for toy, solo and duo piano. As a duo pianist with Joseph Ferretti, Elaine has performed across North America and recorded for Capstone Records. Recordings in the last few years include reTHINK, a CD of contemporary piano music for six hands (Redshift Records) and a recording collaboration with Quatuor Bozzini released in 2024. Elaine is also featured on composer Alex Eddington’s album, “A Present from a Small Distant World” (2021, Redshift Records), with soprano Kristin Mueller-Heaslip. Recent projects include the premières of six-hand works by Nicole Lizée and Vincent Ho, and the launch of PLAYrePLAY, a listener-interactive platform of 3 new works. Elaine looks forward to joining other musicians from diverse genres in next season’s Exit Points concert series at Arraymusic.

Elaine was a coach/repetiteur for the Opera Theatre of Lucca (Italy) and, for several years, a collaborative pianist/instructor for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts (USA). Active nationally as an adjudicator and Senior Examiner for The Royal Conservatory of Music, she also received the Contribution to Teaching Award from the ORMTA. A piano faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University since 2003, Ms. Lau has served as keyboard faculty at the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Music.