She had highly successful career as a concert pianist, making numerous recordings and appearing as a soloist with almost every major American symphony orchestra.
She performed widely with both men in duo piano concerts and was considered to have had a particularly profound effect on Roy Harris's work as a composer.
[1] Born Beula Duffey in Ottawa, she was a child prodigy and began her career as a concert pianist at the age of 8.
[1] In 1923 she turned down a full scholarship to the Hambourg Conservatory in Toronto, choosing instead to study with Ernest Hutcheson in New York City at the urging of Puddicombe.
The Canadian Encyclopedia states, "Johana and Roy Harris were a tour de force in American music.