Ilona Vincze-Kraus 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 Bela Bartok

Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

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After fleeing to Palestine in 1936 with her husband and son, Ilona Vinsze-Kraus became a professor at the Palestine Conservatory in Jerusalem and later taught at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv. Her students include Baruch Arnon

Baruch Arnon

Baruch Arnon is a classical pianist and renowned music teacher. He is currently a professor at the Juilliard School in New York and has previously taught music at the Israel Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and Musica de Camera.- Education :He began his music studies at an early age and studied piano...

, Avi Schönfeld

Avi Schönfeld

Avi Schönfeld is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer. He was born in Lodz, Poland on December 15, 1947.-Life:Schönfeld gave his first concerts in his native Poland before at the age of 19 going to Israel to become a pupil of the Bartók disciple Ilona Vincze-Kraus...

, Llana Davids and Yoheved Kaplinsky

Yoheved Kaplinsky

Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School...

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