Elinor Armer is an American pianist, music educator, and composer. Her father was an acoustical engineer and used to set up speakers in the family’s living room, exposing Elinor to acoustics at a young age. Elinor first began sight-reading music and enjoying four-part harmony because of the many hymnals found in the Armer home. She has traveled throughout the U.S. as well as abroad to perform. Her music styles range from orchestral to solo works. The majority of Armer's compositions, including Promptu and Etude Quasi Cadenza has been written for pianist Lois Brandwynee. Armer enjoys a world-renowned reputation for her work in music education, and is aligned with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, for which she founded the Composition Department in 1985. She also teaches piano, composition, music history, and theory to students out of her home studio located in Berkley. Armer has produced a collaborative multi-part fantasy series with author Ursula K. Le Guin called Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts, which has been recorded on the Koch International Label.
Elinor Armer
Studios
Phi Beta
Elinor Armer worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…