Maria Rika Maniates (March 30, 1937 – October 20, 2011) was a Canadian musicologist who taught at the University of Toronto.
[2][3] At age three, Maniates began studying the piano,[4][5] with Margaret Butler and Marian Grudeff at The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM).
[1] She graduated from the RCM in 1956,[2] and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto four years later.
[1] Maniates also worked on ancient Greek concepts of music, the history on how they were received and examining methodologies in musicology.
[1] She consulted for organizations such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Ontario Council for the Arts,[1][3] and contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as well as several musicology journals.
[2] Maniates died at the Toronto Grace Health Centre, on October 20, 2011, while getting palliative care for cancer.