Nelly Ben-Or
Nelly (Nechama) Ben-Or (also Nelly Ben-Or Clynes ; * 1933 in Lwów ) is a Polish pianist and music teacher.
Ben-Or and her family came to a ghetto after the German Wehrmacht invaded. She and her mother managed to escape during the transport to Auschwitz, and they survived until 1945 in Warsaw under false identities. After the war, she embarked on a career as a concert pianist. She has appeared internationally as a soloist at concerts and has recorded numerous works by composers from the 18th to 20th centuries on radio, especially on the BBC . In 1963 she qualified as the first music teacher to use the Alexander Technique in piano lessons and became the world's leading representative of this method. She gave master classes and became a professor of piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1975 .
Web links
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Keeping in Line - The Names of Alexander and Nelly Ben-Or are indissolubly linked
- Northwood Holocaust Memorial Day Events - Nelly Benor Clynes
- Piano Courses and The Alexander Technique - Nelly Ben-Or
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| SURNAME | Ben-Or, Nelly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ben-Or, Nechama; Ben-Or Clynes, Nelly |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lwów |