Hilda Bor

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Hilda Bor (7 May 1910 – 19 December 1993) was a British pianist with Russian-Jewish roots. A child prodigy, she gave recitals in the 1920s and 1930s and played with groups such as the Griller Quartet, the Amadeus, and the Kantrovich Trio. She was a regular BBC broadcaster and among her contemporaries were Eileen Joyce and Myra Hess, who organized wartime concerts at the National Gallery. Bor also started her own lunchtime concert series at London's Royal Exchange.

After World War II she became a piano teacher, and one of her pupils was Prince Charles and Princess Anne. She was the elder sister of Edward Bor, a violinist and composer; in 2010 Edward published a book to mark her centenary.

Her family includes several musicians: her niece Rachel Bor (now Rachel Lovell), a guitarist in Dolly Mixture; her nephew Andrew Bor (now Andrew O'Hanrahan), the drummer in The Users; and another nephew, Simon Bor, founder of Honeycomb Animation.