Since her acclaimed New York debut as a Concert Artists Guild award winner, harpsichordist Elaine Comparone has maintained a varied career as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist, teacher,collaborator with composers, choreographers and video artists, and founder-director of Harpsichord Unlimited, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the harpsichord, its history and its music. "Elaine Comparone Plays Red-Blooded Harpsichord" headlined The New York Times review of her recital debut and Pulitzer Prize-winner Donal Henahan called her a "harpsichordist with few equals..." (The New York Times).

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts into a family of musicians, she began piano studies at age four with her mother. As a child she played violin, flute (with her father, a professional flutist, as teacher) and pipe organ; but it was not untill her student years at Brandeis University that she discovered and fell in love with the harpsichord. Her success with that instrument resulted in a Fulbright Fellowship to study with harpsichordist Isolde Ahlgrimm at the Academy of Music in Vienna.

As founding member of "Bach with Pluck!", Trio Bell'Arte and The Queen's Chamber Band, she has taken her harpsichords to performances in every state of the continental US. She won an unprecedented grant from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music to purchase a van in which to transport her harpsichords. She has served as organist/choir director of the First Moravian Church in New York City for over ten years. Recently she was appointed Professor of Harpsichord at Adelphi University .

A recipient of Solo Recitalist and Recording Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has given solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street YW-YMHA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dayton Art Institute and the Library of Congress, to name a few.

She has enjoyed guest appearances with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony, Washington Chamber Symphony and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra among others. She has performed her unique interpretations of Domenico Scarlatti’s music in France,Italy and England. As founder/director of Harpsichord Unlimited, a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating interest in the harpsichord and teaching audiences about the instrument, its history and its music, she directs and performs in an annual series of chamber music concerts in New York City. The series features The Queen’s Chamber Band, whose performances of early music and newly commissioned works at Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall celebrate the 31st anniversary of Harpsichord Unlimited this season. Elaine Comparone enjoys standing at the harpsichord to play. She cites Vermeer paintings as an inspiration along with the fact that she is a member of the rock-and-roll generation. Under her direction, Hubbard Harpsichords, Inc. designed and built a tall, oak stand that elevates the instrument. Affectionately dubbed “the Brooklyn Bridge” by Hubbard technicians, the tall stand accommodates either her Hubbard or her Dowd harpsichord.