She was the wife of the writer and journalist György Nemes and the mother of the literary translator Anna Nemes.
From the age of 10 she attended the conservatory of Debrecen as a student of Margit Halácsy.
From 1932 to 1937 she attended Franz Liszt Academy of Music and was taught by Imre Stefániai, Béla Bartók and Imre Keéri-Szántó.
She taught at Nemzeti Zenede from 1947 to 1949, and then between 1949 and 1951 at Musical Secondary Grammar School at Budapest.
Later she became a professor; her primary subject was related to piano.