Maurice Cole (pianist) Maurice Cole (pianist) Maurice Cole (1902–1990), was an English pianist, teacher and adjudicator who studied privately and at the Guildhall School of Music with Arthur De Greef. Maurice Cole was born in London, England. He was the first pianist to broadcast a recital on the BBC and went on to perform, amongst many other compositions, both books of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" on the BBC Third Programme. He was professor at the Guildhall School of Music from 1953, was appointed Professor of Pianoforte at the School on two occasions and was a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. He was
Sonia Nassery Cole Sonia Nassery Cole Sonia Nassery Cole is an Afghan American activist, director, writer, and producer. Cole was born in Afghanistan, daughter of an Afghan diplomat, in the town of Kabul. She landed a job with the United Nations. From the Soviet Union she wrote to Ronald Reagan to help her country; he agreed to meet her and accept her into the anti-Soviet elite, and at age 19 she organized a fund-raiser with Reagan. She was married for 21 years to real-estate mogul Christopher H. Cole. In 2001, Cole returned to Afghanistan and established the Afghanistan World Foundation in 2002 which