Vera Guilaroff

Vera Guilaroff (26 October 1902 – 23 October 1976) was a Canadian composer and pianist.[1] She was responsible for the first jazz record by a Canadian woman.[2]

Guilaroff began her career as a pianist for silent film screenings. She performed with Willie Eckstein and broadcast music under the name "Princess of the Radio". She toured the US with her husband, percussionist Harry Raginsky in the 1920s, and in the 1930s broadcast as "Canada's Melody Girl" with the BBC.[1] After the Second World War she largely withdrew from performing to focus on composition.[1][3]

References
  1. Chantal Gauthier (16 December 2013). Vera Guilaroff. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. Vanessa Blais-Tremblay (2020). "Maple Leaf Rag" in Maple Leaf Country: Impressing Jazz upon Vera Guilaroff. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 24, 38–62. doi:10.1353/wam.2020.0012
  3. Vanessa Blais-Tremblay (2017). Femmes et jazz dans le Québec de l’entre-deux-guerres : entre le récit historique, les archives et le passé. Les Cahiers de la Société québécoise de recherche en musique 18(1), 31–39. doi:10.7202/1059792ar
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