played by Irene Rustad
When only eight years old Irene Rustad began winning prizes in music festivals, and at the age of sixteen won the Ada Lewis open scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. There she studied under Victor Booth for five years, winning bronze and silver medals, the Albanesi Prize for Chopin playing, and the Walter Macfarren gold medal. In 1936 she studied in Italy under Schnabel for three months, and gave her first London recital at the Wigmore Hall in the spring of the following year.