A child
prodigy, Bianca first studied with her mother and then with Frank Sheridan at
Mannes Music School and Isabella Vergerova at the
Curtis Institute of Music. This led to what is documented as an amazing performance as a nine-year-old of a
Mozart piano concerto, played from memory, for the
New York Philharmonic - which led to her later appearing with this orchestra as a soloist. Her career, therefore, started before the age of ten, at which time she was a soloist with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra and performed over
CBC Radio in their French division. Later in her career, she performed in Europe with the
Hamburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans-Jurgen Walther, the
Hamburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl-August Bünte and the New Symphony Society Orchestra conducted by
Walter Goehr among others. One of her notable American performances was on January 20, 1955, when she was the guest soloist with the
Florida Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Frank Miller. The
programme included
Andre Bloch's "Concerto No. 1",
Liszt's "Concerto in E flat",
Glinka's Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla",
Handel's "
Water Music" and
Georges Enesco's "Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1". Another notable performance was the piece
Rhapsody 21 for the
Century 21 Exposition, conducted by
Paul Whiteman. One of the specialties in her
repertoire was
George Gershwin's "Piano Concerto in F". Due to its ban in
Nazi Germany it was unpopular in that country for many years. Recent study has shown that she may have been the first to perform the concerto in that country after the end of
World War II. After retiring from live performances, she continued teaching other young pianists. Due to her early exit from performing, she is regarded as something of a mystery by modern enthusiasts of her surviving recordings. ==Pseudonym recordings==