She studied piano under Alphonse Duvernoy at the Conservatoire de Paris, with composer Bernhard Stavenhagen in Münich, and with Leonid Kreutzer in Berlin.

[1] When Drewett played a Beethoven piano concerto at London's Crystal Palace in 1905, a reviewer described the performance as "neat in execution and intelligent in conception".

[2] "Miss Drewett has intelligence, vigour, and expressive power in a high degree," noted another reviewer that year, "in addition to which she has that which cannot be taught – genuine and infectious pleasure in her own playing.

[9] In Canada, she played in a piano ensemble performance, with four male pianists (Ernest Seitz, Viggo Kihl, Reginald Stewart, and Alberto Guerrero) in Edmonton in 1927.

"Norah Drewett and Geza de Kresz have probably been longer together without a break than any couple playing before the public today," noted an American newspaper in 1948.