She studied piano with William Hall Sherwood in Chicago, and with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Josef Lhévinne.

[3] She performed and lectured often in midwestern cities,[4] played in Texas in 1922,[5] and toured in California in 1923.

[8] Several Chicago composers, including Theodora Sturkow-Ryder, dedicated piano compositions to Kober.

[10] Her faculty included conductors Daniel Protheroe and Isaac Van Grove, soprano Genevra Johnstone Bishop, and music historian Glenn Dillard Gunn.

[13][14] Her large collection of sheet music was given to the Community Music School in San Francisco after she died, except for a copy of a Mephisto Waltz autographed by Franz Liszt, which went to the San Francisco Public Library.