Austrian pianist, teacher and composer. Zagreb, Yugoslavia, October 21, 1928. She studied the piano under Seiderhofer and composition under A. Uhl at the Musikhochschule, Vienna from 1951 to 1957, graduating with a prize. In 1958 the Austrian Academy of Sciences awarded her a scholarship to ROM, the Austrian Cultural Institute. She made her first contact with avant-garde music at Darmstadt in 1962. She taught the piano at the Musikhochschule, Vienna.