Flora Guenzburg Zygman (died after May 1940) was a Polish-born American pianist based in Chicago.
Early life Flora Guenzburg Zygman was from Warsaw."Flora Zygman Goes to Europe" Music News 14(February 17, 1922): 28. She studied with Sergei Bortkiewicz and with Alexander Glazunov in Saint Petersburg."Flora Guenzberg-Zygman's Debut" Musical Courier (May 10, 1917): 16.
Career Zygman taught and played piano in Chicago from 1917, and was a soloist with the Temple Judea Symphony Orchestra in Chicago in 1918."Temple Judea Symphony Orchestra Concert" The Reform Advocate (March 16, 1918): 134. In 1919 she was a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She made her New York debut in 1919, in an afternoon at the Aeolian Hall. "The young pianist played with daylight cheerfulness and feminist sensitiveness," reported one reviewer, "and with no little technical skill.""Flora Zygman Has Debut" Musical America (November 22, 1919): 9.
She made piano roll recordings for Ampico in 1920."Flora Zygman to Play for Ampico" The Music Trades (December 27, 1919): 34. She also played in trios with violinist Edmund Zygman and cellist Adolf Hoffman, and gave a concert with German contralto Rosa Olitzka on Mackinac Island in 1920.
In 1922, 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940, she was briefly noted for being the very last alphabetical listing in each year's new edition of Who's Who in America.
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