Phyllida Ashley
Phyllida Ashley Everingham (* 1894 in San Francisco , California ; † 1975 ) was an American pianist .
Life
Ashley, whose mother and grandmother had already been pianists, had her first lessons with her mother and played for Ignacy Jan Paderewski when she was five . She studied with Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisler and in New York with Paderewski's pupil Sigismond Stojowski , who held her extremely highly. She then worked as a silent film musician and church organist and made her debut as a concert pianist at the Aeolian Hall .
After the First World War , she settled again in San Francisco with her husband, surgeon Sumner Everingham . Here she appeared twice a week on a radio series and went on concert tours along the west coast. Her daughter Anna Everingham Adams became known as a harpist.
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- Wenonah Milton Govea: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century harpists: a bio-critical sourcebook , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995, ISBN 978-0-313-27866-2 , pp. 3-4
- Joseph Herter: Zygmunt Stojowski: life and music , Figueroa Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-932800-26-5 , p. 73
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| SURNAME | Ashley, Phyllida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Everingham, Phyllida Ashley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |