Ilona Vincze-Kraus

Ilona Vincze-Kraus (1902 in Budapest, Hungary – 1998 in Israel) was a well-known teacher of current classical piano pedagogues in the US.

Education and Professional History

Ilona Vincze-Kraus studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest and performed recitals throughout Europe. She was a student of Béla Bartók.

After fleeing to Palestine in 1936 with her husband and son, Ilona Vincze-Kraus became a professor at the Palestine Conservatory in Jerusalem and later taught at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv. Her students include Naomi Shemer,^[1] Baruch Arnon, Avi Schönfeld, Llana Davids and Yoheved Kaplinsky.

Bibliography and external links

• Orpheus Trust

References