Celia Hurwitz-Keefe received her PhD from Columbia University in 2002 with a dissertation entitled 'Tonality and Form in the First Movements of Britten's String Quartets Opp. 25 and 36'. She served as an editor for twentieth-century composers at The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition (London: Macmillan, 2001), has taught for Queen's University Belfast and the Open University, and has contributed to a variety of music education projects for young people.
