Nancy Salas

Nancy Evelyn Salas MBE (28 July 1910 – 18 December 1990) was an Australian music teacher and musicologist.

Salas learned piano from a teacher in Kalgoorlie, and gained her licentiate in music from Trinity College London in 1929.

She performed both the instruments with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Eugene Goossens, and also made recordings for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).

In 1979, Salas and a pupil, Kathryn Selby, performed in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York as part of a concert to celebrate the International Year of the Child.

Ray Hartley OAM (1925-2014) was a world-class Australian pianist, composer, arranger and philanthropist.

Nancy Salas, c.1935