Olga Craen inculcated a love and discipline for
the piano among her numerous Parsi students
Firdaus Gandavia
At age three, she was learning music with her mother, herself an accomplished pianist. Olga Craen (née Athaide) was put on the stage, aged six, when she gave her first public concert, flawlessly performing impossibly difficult and demanding works by Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. She went on to study under Edward Behr who was probably the most renowned teacher in Bombay and by the age of 18 had completed her Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (LRSM) with outstanding results. She then took Bombay by storm becoming famous as a classical pianist and an......