classical pianist - She study at the École Normale de Musique with Alfred Cortot. After making her Paris debut in 1929 she had some lessons with Sergei Rachmaninov She graduated from the Athens Conservatory in 1929.Her first concert with an orchestra was in 1932.She won a medal at the International Competition in Vienna and went on to make her orchestral debut in Athens in 1935, playing the Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23 by Tchaikovsky under Dimitri Mitropoulos.She recorded for the HMV (His Master's Voice), RCA Victor and Mercury labels. She gave hundreds of concerts, including 630 for the Allied troops in the Middle East during World War II. Gina Bachauer was also the piano teacher of Princess Irene.
She died in 1976 of a heart attack at the Athens Festival, on the day she was to appear as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C.
The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition was established in 1976 in her honor. It attracts young pianists from all over the world to Salt Lake City each year. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah and, after her death.
To preserve the legacy that Bachauer left behind, her husband, Alec Sherman, bequeathed her personal papers, recordings, photos, and over 200 scores to the Brigham Young University library, which created the Gina Bachauer Archives.
She died in 1976 of a heart attack at the Athens Festival, on the day she was to appear as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C.
The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition was established in 1976 in her honor. It attracts young pianists from all over the world to Salt Lake City each year. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah and, after her death.
To preserve the legacy that Bachauer left behind, her husband, Alec Sherman, bequeathed her personal papers, recordings, photos, and over 200 scores to the Brigham Young University library, which created the Gina Bachauer Archives.
classical pianist - She study at the École Normale de Musique with Alfred Cortot. After making her Paris debut in 1929 she had some lessons with Sergei Rachmaninov She graduated from the Athens Conservatory in 1929.Her first concert with an orchestra was in 1932.She won a medal at the International Competition in Vienna and went on to make her orchestral debut in Athens in 1935, playing the Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23 by Tchaikovsky under Dimitri Mitropoulos.She recorded for the HMV (His Master's Voice), RCA Victor and Mercury labels. She gave hundreds of concerts, including 630 for the Allied troops in the Middle East during World War II. Gina Bachauer was also the piano teacher of Princess Irene.
She died in 1976 of a heart attack at the Athens Festival, on the day she was to appear as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C.
The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition was established in 1976 in her honor. It attracts young pianists from all over the world to Salt Lake City each year. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah and, after her death.
To preserve the legacy that Bachauer left behind, her husband, Alec Sherman, bequeathed her personal papers, recordings, photos, and over 200 scores to the Brigham Young University library, which created the Gina Bachauer Archives.
She died in 1976 of a heart attack at the Athens Festival, on the day she was to appear as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C.
The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition was established in 1976 in her honor. It attracts young pianists from all over the world to Salt Lake City each year. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah and, after her death.
To preserve the legacy that Bachauer left behind, her husband, Alec Sherman, bequeathed her personal papers, recordings, photos, and over 200 scores to the Brigham Young University library, which created the Gina Bachauer Archives.
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