At the age of 10 she moved to Moscow to study at the Central Music School and continued her studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory,[1] where she was a disciple of Alexander Goldenweiser.

Her classmates included Lazar Berman and Dmitri Bashkirov.

[citation needed] In 1957, she married Russian operatic tenor and Yiddish singer Leonid Kovler and moved to Moscow Oblast, Udelnaya[2] where she devoted herself to teaching.

[3] In 2003 she moved to Haifa, Israel where she continued to give masterclasses and perform until her death in 2018 at age 87.

She is the paternal grandmother of Israeli-American composer Mátti Kovler.