Ania Dorfmann was born in Odessa, Russia (now in Ukraine) in 1899, the daughter of a merchant.
[13] In 1947 Ania Dorfmann worked intensively with the actress Barbara Stanwyck, who was making the film The Other Love, in which she played a concert pianist.
[15] In 1956[1] (some sources say 1966) she joined the piano faculty of the Juilliard School, where she remained for most of the rest of her life.
[4][5] Ania Dorfmann's students included Lev Natochenny,[16] Alexander Peskanov,[17][18] Solveig Funseth,[19] Minuetta Kessler,[20] Raymond Jackson,[21] Suezenne Fordham,[22] Roman Markowicz,[23] Robert Shannon,[24] and Marian Migdal.
[27] Ania Dorfmann made a number of recordings primarily for RCA Victor, some of the most notable of which were: