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Update: the body of Eleanor Stubley has been found.

Montreal police are searching for a prominent conductor, musicologist and professor at McGill University who has been missing since last Monday.

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Eleanor Stubley, 57, the associate dean of Graduate Studies at the Schulich School of Music and an associate professor of music history, is an internationally renowned conductor who has worked with the Massey Singers, Bach Festival Orchestra and members of the Canadian Opera Company, according to McGill’s website.

Stubley, who lives in Westmount, has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair or forearm crutches. She drives a specially adapted 2004 blue Dodge Grand Caravan, license plate number 238 RQL.

She was last seen Aug. 7 at 8:30 p.m. near Notre-Dame St. W. and St-Philippe St. in the St-Henri district.

“We’re all absolutely in shock,” said Stéphane Lemelin, the chair of the department of performance at the Schulich School of Music. “It’s truly very distressing.”