found: sweeneyphillipsholdren.com, December 8, 2022(Nelita True Laires, September 18, 1936 - January 17, 2021; Dr. Nelita True Laires; pianist-teacher; she was born in Bozeman, Montana in 1936; she made her debut at age seventeen with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall and her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall; a graduate of the University of Michigan as a student of Helen Titus, Dr. True went on to Juilliard to study with Sascha Gorodnitzki, and then earned a DMA with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory; in Paris, she studied with Nadia Boulanger on a Fulbright grant; she taught at Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp, was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, The Eastman School of Music (1989-2018, Professor Emerita 2018-2021), and in hundreds of workshops and master classes across the globe; she was preceded in death by her husband Fernando Laires)
