Banks Shapiro, Hilda (fem) 19.dec.1926- USA Massachusetts, Boston
concert pianist, 1930 residing at 22 Gleason Street in Boston Brookline, 1935-1940 studied piano with Leonard Shure in Boston, 1940-1947 with Artur Schnabel in New York, 1946 composition with Bohuslav Martinu in New York, 1942 as youngest student ever at the Berkshire Music School Pittsfield Massachusetts, chosen by Serge Koussevitzky to represent teen-age pianists at the 1942 Berkshire Festival, 1943 debuted at Jordan Hall Boston and 20.feb.1944 at New York Town Hall, 1947 toured America, Canada and Europe, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Den Haag, 1950 residing at 205 Pinehurst Avenue in New York, 1967 with husband Leonard she directed the Shapiro Casting Co. New York, 1979-2004 piano teacher at the Berkshire Music School, 1972-2015 she resided in Great Barrington Massachusetts ; daughter of commercial traveler men's clothing Samuel Banks (Lithuania, Kovno 15.nov.1888-) and Matilda 'Tillie' Blostein (Lithuania 1897-) ; 28.dec.1948 she married Leonard Shapiro (New York 26.apr.1925-6.jul.1982 Boston) who left the family after they had raised 12 children