She was educated at the London Academy of Music under Yorke Trotter and Horace Kesteven.
She composed songs, including A Requiem - When I am dead my dearest (setting Christina Rossetti), and April (text William Watson), both published in 1948,[1] and educational piano pieces such as 'Song of the Kinkajou' (originally from the piano suite for children Five Zoo Pictures, 1929).
[3] As a pianist, she specialised in piano duet performances, initially with Paul Hamburger.
They premiered Alan Rawsthorne's The Creel in 1940,[4] and the Fantasia on The Irish Ho-Hoane, Op.13 by Bernard Stevens in 1949.
Malcolm Arnold dedicated his Concerto for Piano Duet and Strings, op.