by Esther Fisher
This gifted pianist, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, gaining at an early age the much-coveted entree to the Paris Conservatoire (for which only four foreigners are accepted each year), student under Isidore Philipp in Paris, and under Artur Schnabel in Berlin, made her London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1924, and immediately won over the critics. Since then Esther Fisher has been continuously before the public, with ever-increasing success, in London, in the provinces, and abroad. She was for some time pianist with the doyen of viola players, Lionel Tertis.