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Kyla Greenbaum was born on 5 February, 1922 in Brighton, England, is a British pianist and composer. Discover Kyla Greenbaum's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

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Occupation Pianist, composer
Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 5 February, 1922
Birthday 5 February
Birthplace Brighton, England
Date of death 15 June, 2017
Died Place Hampstead, London
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1922

Kyla Betty Greenbaum (5 February 1922 – 15 June 2017) was a British pianist and composer, the younger sister of conductor and composer Hyam Greenbaum.

Greenbaum was born in 1922 in Brighton, England to a Jewish Russian father (born in Karlisz Poland but sent to the UK as a child to train as a tailor) and an English mother and (like her brother two decades earlier) she received her first musical training at home.

1929

It became her calling card, with Lambert saying that he preferred her interpretation to that of Hamilton Harty who premiered the piece in 1929.

1938

She went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music (1938–42) and then in Budapest.

She first attracted notice as a pianist during the second world war as a regular performer at the famous National Gallery wartime lunchtime concerts organised by Myra Hess.

The grand piano she owned for many years afterwards was scratched when the ceiling collapsed on it as she was hiding underneath during a German bombing raid.

1945

She gave the first UK performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto in 1945 and the first of Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto in 1955.

Her evident virtuosity quickly led to performances of challenging and otherwise neglected romantic and contemporary music repertoire, such as Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Constant Lambert on 5 May 1945, and (on 30 May 1945 with Frederick Thurston and others) the first broadcast performance of Hindemith's Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.

On 28 August 1945, aged just 23, Greenbaum made the first of 13 appearances as a soloist at the BBC Proms with a performance of Constant Lambert's The Rio Grande.

She followed this on 7 September 1945 with the first performance in England of Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Basil Cameron conducting.

Despite some underlying hostility the work was received by the audience with unexpected enthusiasm, and (according to The Musical Times) she played with "immense courage".

She also performed Schoenberg's Phantasy, Op. 47.

1947

Other Proms appearances included William Walton's Sinfonia Concertante (14 January 1947), John Ireland's Legend for piano and orchestra (10 September 1948), Alan Rawsthorne's Piano Concerto No 1 (7 September 1949), and the first UK hearing of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 (26 August 1955), by then 40 years old.

1948

Other contemporary works she championed were Alan Bush's Le Quatorze Juillet (on 17 February 1948), James Iliff's Piano Sonata (which is dedicated to her), John Lambert's Piano Sonata (played at Morley College on 14 March 1954) and John Greenwood's Piano Quintet.

She also contributed to the revival in interest of the music of Charles-Valentin Alkan, broadcasting four recitals of his music in 1948.

1949

Her best known recordings include The Rio Grande (made in 1949) and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor (made in 1957).

1951

(She played it at the Proms for the final time on 15 August 1951 with the composer conducting, just days before his death).

1952

In 1952 Greenbaum was one of three pianists (the others being the identical twin piano duo Mary and Geraldine Peppin) performing Peter Racine Fricker's Concertante for three pianos, strings and percussion.

1956

In 1956, Greenbaum married psychiatrist Andrew Crowcroft, They had two children (Jonathan and Natasha).

Andrew's posting to Toronto gave Kyla new opportunities in Canada including performing and recording Noospheres by composer Charles Camilleri and teaching Aesthetics at York University.

1978

In 1978 they returned to the UK, living in Camden for twenty years, throwing parties for exiles, writers and musicians.

Kyla did occasionally still perform during this time, sometimes under her married name, both in Canada and in the UK.

1979

For instance, on 12 May 1979 she premiered (and subsequently recorded) the piano work Noospheres (1977) by the Canadian composer Charles Camilleri at Canada House.

1995

She wrote a score for the play with dance Theresa by Julia Pascal, one of a trilogy of plays under the general title The Holocaust Trilogy, staged at the New End Theatre in Hampstead on 5 November 1995.

1998

Bells was composed in 1998.

Song of Songs, a setting of the Old Testament, is scored for solo soprano with clarinet, horn, string trio, double bass and percussion.

2002

She was co-authoring a book on the lullaby with her husband at the time of his death in 2002.

It remained unpublished.

2006

It received its first performance in 2006 as part of Jewish Culture Day at the Southbank Centre in London.

2017

These were both reissued in 2017 on the CRQ label.

Greenbaum turned to composition in later life.

Kyla died in Hampstead, London on 15 June 2017.