CONSTANCE KEENE

New York born Constance Keene studied at the Walden School and Dalton School. Her piano teachers included Kathryn Makin, Lotte Hough, and Abram Chasins (who became her husband in 1949). She also studied chamber music with Gregor Piatigorsky. Her début as a Naumburg Award-winner was at Town Hall, New York, on 8 November 1943. Her long and distinguished career included teaching and concertizing, as well as recording the complete Rachmaninov Preludes and works for two pianos with Chasins.