June Kovach

Her concert career started in 1949 and in 1951 she won the piano prize given each year by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation.

[2] Her concert career took her to the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

[3] From 1961 she put aside concerts and she began to work as a film director with her husband, Alexander Seiler [de].

[5] She worked with Rob Gnant and her husband to create the documentary film Siamo Italiano which in 1964 highlighted the discrimination experienced by Italian workers in Switzerland.

[3] In 2003 she was sole director of the film Black Flowers - Gretler's Panoptikum which tells the story of Gretler, a farmer, who was about to retire when he realizes that something strange has occurred when all the flowers in his fields turn black.