Constance Keene

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Constance Keene (February 9, 1921, Brooklyn, New York – December 24, 2005) was an American pianist, who attracted great praise for her 1964 recording of Rachmaninov's Preludes, and also won critical acclaim for her recordings of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn.

Raised in Brooklyn, New York, one of her teachers was Abram Chasins. She won the Naumburg Piano Competition in 1943. In 1946, she stood in for Vladimir Horowitz when he was unavailable for a concert, and she claimed she was the only female pianist to have ever been given this honour. In 1949 she married Chasins, who died in 1987. She later became a teacher herself. Her pupils included the children of Artur Rubinstein, who said he was "flabbergasted by the colour, sweep and imagination and ... incredible technique. I cannot imagine anybody, including Rachmaninoff, playing the piano so beautifully".^{[citation needed]}

For many years, she was on the piano faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, and was a member of its Board of Trustees. She was also sought out as a piano competition adjudicator.