Flora Zygman

Flora Guenzburg Zygman was from Warsaw.^[1] She studied with Sergei Bortkiewicz and with Alexander Glazunov in Saint Petersburg.^[2]

Zygman taught^[3] and played piano in Chicago^[4][5] from 1917,^[6] and was a soloist with the Temple Judea Symphony Orchestra in Chicago in 1918.^[7] In 1919 she was a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.^[8] She made her New York debut in 1919, in an afternoon at the Aeolian Hall.^[9] "The young pianist played with daylight cheerfulness and feminist sensitiveness," reported one reviewer, "and with no little technical skill."^[10]

She made piano roll recordings for Ampico in 1920.^[11] She also played in trios with violinist Edmund Zygman and cellist Adolf Hoffman,^[12] and gave a concert with German contralto Rosa Olitzka on Mackinac Island in 1920.^[13][14]

In 1922, 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940, she was briefly noted for being the very last alphabetical listing in each year's new edition of Who's Who in America.^[15][16]