[2][3] Arthur Rubinstein, a juror at the QEC,[1] recommended her as "the most exceptional talent of our era",[4] and his manager arranged a tour of the US, with a debut at The Town Hall in New York City in 1955.

Harold C. Schonberg from The New York Times commented: "Whatever she touched came out with confidence and competence", noted "the verve of her playing", and summarised that she was "a pianist with an extraordinary potential".

[4] She often played chamber music with Amadeus Quartet, and the violinists Salvatore Accardo[4] and Uto Ughi.

He saw her in the "tradition of Italian interpreters that begins with Toscanini and includes Carlo Zecchi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Maurizio Pollini, Salvatore Accardo, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado: interpreters who remain masters of their emotions and achieve the effect they want on the public."

"[7] As a dedicated teacher, Tipo served as professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and the Conservatorio Claudio Monteverdi [it] in the 1960s and 1970s, and from 1980 at the Florence Conservatory and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole where she held a chair for piano from 1987 to 2009.

[2] Her students included Fabio Bidini, Nelson Goerner,[1][8] Frank Lévy,[9] Andrea Lucchesini [it], Pietro De Maria [it], and Giovanni Nesi.

[3] In the 1960s, when she returned from isolated touring in the US, she married the guitarist and composer Alvaro Company; They had a daughter.

She found it hard to be artist, wife, mother and teacher, and the marriage ended in divorce.