She was born in Heraklion, Crete, on 25/2/1917. She engaged in music from an early age, studying piano and composition. She studied piano under pianist Felix Weingarten and theory under Richard Stöhr at the Vienna Conservatory. She continued studying composition under Henri Büsser and piano under Isidor Philipp at the Paris Conservatory. In 1933 she graduated from the Paris Conservatory and won 1st prize in piano. During her international career she was distinguished as a pianist and composer. She recorded the entire piano works by Emmanuel Chabrier and Feliz Mendelssohn, Antonio Soler’s entire set of sonatas for piano, as well as works by John Field, Joseph Haydn, Enrique Granados and Isaac Albéniz (Vox-Classical, Ent. One Music, Tuxedo). In 1964 she participated for the first time in the jury of the Geneva International Music Competition, alongside Nikita Magaloff and François Pierre Marescotti. Her compositions include six Symphonic Preludes, six Lyric Preludes, five preludes for piano, a fantasy for piano, as well as the works Perpetuum mobile and Les Cloches and Burlesque and a concert for piano and orchestra. She passed away in Athens in August 1994. She served as a GNO board member (1956).