Hanna Lachertowa

Hanna Lachertowa (born November 25, 1910 in Błonie ; † June 8, 1998 in New York City ) was a Polish pianist and music teacher.

Lachertowa studied piano pedagogy at the Warsaw Conservatory with Maryla Chrzanowska-Boni , Kazimiera Thun-Salecka , Józef Turczyński and Zofia Buckiewiczowa . Between 1945 and 1971 she taught at various music schools in Warsaw and from 1951 to 1971 at the State Music Academy. She also worked as a répétiteur (including for the Central Concert Office and the National Philharmonic) and as a consultant and inspector for piano at the Center for Artistic Education of the Polish Ministry of Culture. From 1957 she was a member of the music artists' association SPAM, from 1959 employee and from 1961 secretary of the pedagogy section and from 1963 to 1966 general secretary of the main committee of SPAM. In 1964 she founded the Polish section of the International Society for Music Education, of which she was chairman until 1979. In 1973 she became a board member of the Polish Music Council, 1974–79 a member of the UNESCO Culture Council in the Ministry of Culture and Art, and from 1984 she was deputy chairman of the main examination commission of the Association of Polish Musicians.

Between 1972 and 1984 she held master classes in piano pedagogy in Italy, Portugal and Switzerland every year. At the same time, she gave numerous lectures at conferences on piano methodology in Dijon, Montreux, Moscow, Pamparato, Turin, Fermo, Tunis, Toronto and New York. In her thirty-year stage career, she gave around 6000 concerts as a piano accompanist. With Gabriela Stempniowa she wrote the Nuta - Dźwięk - Klawisz piano school , which appeared in 1979 in Warsaw and in 1986 in Italy. Lachertowa was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1974), the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1981) and the Badge of Honor of the City of Poznań (1983).

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SURNAME	Lachertowa, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Błonie
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 1998
Place of death	New York City