Musician
A distinguished pianist, and a senior Alexander Technique teacher (in 1963 she became the first pianist to qualify as a teacher of the Alexander Technique), Ben-Or is internationally acknowledged as being the leading exponent of the application of the Alexander Technique to piano playing, in which field she has specialised for more than thirty-five years. She gives master classes on the technique to pianists in many countries throughout the world.
She has performed in concerts and broadcasts throughout the world, in recitals, with orchestra and in chamber music. Ben-Or has made numerous commercial and broadcast recordings, including for the BBC. These recordings cover music by a wide range of composers from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Moving to England in 1960, she met and married her English husband and later moved to Northwood in London.
In 1999, the Nelly Ben-Or Scholarship Trust was established, whose patron is Sir Colin Davis.
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Of snails, musician of pears, principium
And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
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Preceptor to the sea?”
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