Nelly Ben-Or MBE
Nelly Ben-Or is a fellow of and professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she has taught the piano and the Alexander Technique since 1975.
Miss Ben-Or was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2020 honours list.
This distinguished pianist (who is also a senior Alexander teacher) is recognised internationally as being the leading exponent of the application of the Alexander Technique to piano playing. Nelly has specialised in this field for more than forty-five years and gives master classes on this subject to pianists in many countries throughout the world.
Nelly Ben-Or has performed in concerts and broadcasts in many countries: in recitals, with orchestra and in chamber music. Her commercial and broadcast recordings - including many for the BBC - cover music by a wide range of composers from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Nelly at the piano mid 1960's
miss ben-or receiving her guildhall school of music fellowship
2/11/2018
Nelly Ben-Or MBE receiving her Fellowship of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama 2/11/2018
13 October 2020
Guildhall School Alexander Technique professor Nelly Ben-Or has been made an MBE for services to holocaust education. The first pianist to qualify as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1963, she is internationally acknowledged as being the leading exponent of the application of the Alexander Technique to piano playing. Her English-language autobiography Ashes to Light: A Holocaust Childhood to a Life in Music was published in 2019, and she was made a Fellow of the Guildhall School in 2018.