Carola Grindea

She had the phone number of Myra Hess, the pianist, and the latter invited the couple to her house in Golders Green, where they learnt of the declaration of war.

[1] Grindea urged Hess not to enlist as an ambulance driver and instead establish a series of lunchtime concerts at London's National Gallery that ran during the war.

[5] The following year after she left, Grindea's enthusiasm for teaching earned her the role of a piano professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

[1] She also began a lecture series called Techniques of Piano Teaching,[5] which was considered a revolutionary in the United Kingdom because of the prevalent attitude amongst young pianists at the time that those would could not play taught.

[8] The objective of EPTA is to improve teaching of piano through the holding of conferences, master classes, recitals and workshops for those musicians who were traditionally isolated.

[6] On 2 November 2007, the Music Teachers National Association awarded her a "Citation of Leadership", which was collected by her daughter when Grindea was unable to attend the ceremony.