 Her debut was in 1931 at the Chicago Opera House where she played the "Hungarian Gypsy Airs" by Sophie Menter, orchestrated by Tchaikovsky.This was followed by a long and triumphant career as a concert pianist in which she gave many first Australian performances – George Gershwin's Concerto in F, Richard Strauss's "Burleske in D minor" (1937), the Sophie Menter piece mentioned above, Debussy's "Feux d'artifices", and works by Bartók and William Walton.She played extensively in Australia and with the fledgling Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) orchestras before World War II, and after the war undertook a number of overseas tours.