Ilona Vincze-Krausz


Ilona Vincze-Krausz or Kraus was a Hungarian-Israeli teacher of current classical piano pedagogues.

Education and professional history

Vincze-Krausz was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary in 1902, the daughter of Isidore Eduard Krausz and Lina Karolina Krausz . She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest and performed recitals throughout Europe. She was a student of Béla Bartók. After fleeing to Palestine in 1936 with her husband and son, she became a professor at the Palestine Conservatory in Jerusalem and later taught at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv. Her students include Naomi Shemer, Baruch Arnon, Avi Schönfeld, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Issak Tavior.
She was married to cellist László Vincze.