Over the next three years, she performed as a soloist with the Munich Philharmonic, the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester and the hr-Sinfonieorchester as well as with the symphony orchestras of various larger cities.
In 1952, she moved to New York City with her husband, the American concert pianist Richard Anschuetz, who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials in the post-war period.
She included composers from her home country in her repertoire such as Eduard Tubin, Artur Lemba and Heino Eller.
She also worked with the conductor and pianist Olav Roots, who was music director of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra for a long time.
[7] After her death in 1996, Liivak was buried in New York City at the age of 72 at Concordia Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.