This master class was filmed in 1973. Taken from the Jerusalem Music Centre’s archives, it features legendary pianist Gina Bachauer at the Jerusalem Music Centre. Bachauer works on Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 with JMC graduate Yefim Bronfman.

Gina Bachauer (1913 – 1976) was born in Athens, Greece, and gave her first recital aged just eight. After studying with Woldemar Freeman at the Athens Conservatory, graduating in 1929, she went to the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris,  where she worked with Alfred Cortot.

Bachauer toured extensively, performing with many of the world’s greatest orchestras, and she gave over 630 concerts for the Allied troops in the Middle East during World War II. She recorded for HMV, RCA Victor and Mercury labels. The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition was established in 1976 in her honour, and it attracts pianists from all over the world to Salt Lake City, USA.