BRILLIANT PIANIST
"AUSTRALIAN GIRL HOW SHE ROSE TO FAME LONDON. Sept. 7 Miss EUecn *.Tovce, Australia's 21-year-old pianist, is Britain's latest inusical discovery. After playing under 1 Sir Henry Wood, Albert Coates and Adrian Boult, including promenade" concerts, l a, gramophone record, which papers widely praise, has now increased her fame. Miss Joyce in- an interview said that her father was an impoverished Western Australian miner, and she could not read or write when, at 11. years of age, a priest heard hiir playing in a Boulder City hotel. He was' so impressed that he persuaded nuns to take her to' their convent. V Wilhelm Backhaus later heard and helped Miss Joyce, and she made a concert tour of Australia, which realised £9OO. Then she went to Europe, remaining at Leipzig for four years. She is now one of the most brilliant young pianists in England, with many concert and broadcast engagements ahead, i .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 10
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