Annabelle Whitestone

Nicholas Whitestone RN and Lorna Birkenshaw Whitestone, is an English former concert manager[2] working with classical music impresarios including Ingpen & Williams, Ibbs and Tillett, Wilfrid Van Wyck, the English Bach Festival and Conciertos Daniel in Madrid [3] The Polish-American pianist Arthur Rubinstein credited Whitestone with assisting the careers of two of his protégés,[4] François-René Duchâble and Janina Fialkowska.

In 1977, the 90-year-old Rubinstein left his wife Nela Młynarska after 45 years of marriage for Whitestone[5] and lived with her in Geneva, Switzerland,[6] until he died in 1982.

Rubinstein's first collaborator was Tony Madigan, whom he met in Marbella,[7] and he transcribed the early part of the book.

[8] Whitestone convened Remembering Rubinstein,[9] a day of talks and concerts at the Royal Academy of Music on 22 January 2008,[10] to honour the pianist "who once sold as many records as rock stars and was as much at ease in the White House as he was with his chums Picasso and Charlie Chaplin.

Lady Weidenfeld was also the personal manager of the legendary late concert pianist Menahem Pressler and was his partner from 2016 until his death in 2023.