Davies' first London piano recital took place in June 1936 at the
Aeolian Hall, and her first radio broadcast followed in April 1937. During the war Davies performed at the
National Gallery concerts organized by
Myra Hess, at which she gave the first performance in England of
Shostakovich's Piano Sonata, Op. 12 (on 31 May 1943). She also taught at the
City Literary Institute (from 1945), the
Mary Ward Centre (from 1956) and the Stanhope Institute, before retiring from teaching in 1979.
Three European Folk Dances for piano, a
Requiem (1972, performed in Winchester, revised 1991) and the song cycle
Glimpses (1993) for female vocal quartet. All her pre-war compositions were withdrawn and destroyed. Davies' repertoire included Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Busoni and
Bernard Stevens. Davies recorded the complete solo piano works of Bernard van Dieren for the
British Music Society in the 1980s. She also championed Welsh composers, naming 'Y Pump Cymreig' (The Welsh Five) as
Denis ApIvor,
Daniel Jones,
Mervyn Roberts,
Grace Williams and
David Wynne. She premiered ApIvor's Piano Concerto, op. 13 in 1948 and Wynne's Piano Sonata No 2 in 1957. In the 1950s Davies' London address was Flat 2, 23 Coram Street, WC1. She later moved to 40, The Limes Avenue,
New Southgate. Her archive is held at the
National Library of Wales. ==References==