Last month, the Los Angeles-based Grammy-nominated classical pianist unveiled her one-woman show The Pianist of Willesden Lane at the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv.

The 70-year-old also handed out free copies of the book she wrote about her mother, Lisa Jura.

Lisa’s talent at the piano was initially nurtured by her mother, Malka, and subsequently by her teacher Prof Isseles. That Lisa was destined for great things appeared to have been on the cards.

But that was in 1930s Vienna, during the darkest of times for the Jura family, living in the Austrian capital’s Second District, home to many Jews.

Aged 14, Lisa left for England on the Kindertransport with just one compact suitcase.

“You must promise me that you will hold on to your music. Please promise me that,” Malka told her distraught daughter at the Westbahnhof as Lisa waited to board the train to London.

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