CHAPIRO, Fania

CHAPIRO, Fania Dutch pianist and composer. Surabaja, Indonesia, 1926. Her father was of Russian origin and her mother Dutch. She received her first music lessons from her father, a violinist, when she was three years old. At five she began piano lessons under Johan Madlener and at seven played Mozart’s ‘Coronation Concerto’ in public. She studied under Lazare-Levy in Paris for five years. She also studied theory and solfege at the Paris Conservatoire, under Sem Dresden (harmony and…