E. L. Lancaster is a piano faculty member at California State University Northridge, and serves as editor-in-chief of Piano Education Press, the publishing arm of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy. Previous positions include David Ross Boyd Professor at the University of Oklahoma and Senior Vice President and Keyboard Editor-in-Chief at Alfred Music. In 2019, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and the Outstanding Alumnus in Fine Arts Award from Murray State University.