Born into a family of talented musicians, artists and writers within her own geneology, Ludmila Knezkova-Hussey earned the attention of the musical world from a very young age. She grew up living and breathing music into her heart and soul, beginning her extensive musical education with violin studies when she was only three and performed at her first public recital still under the age of five. At seven she began taking piano lessons. Identified as a prodigious child she lead all her classes at the elite Lvov Central Music School, Ukraine, which she attended, completing eleven years of instruction in only nine years, continuing her studies in piano at the prestigious Music College of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Russia. Then she enrolled at the famed Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (where so many world-famous Russian pianists and composers have studied). Among her professors was the famous Professor Jakov Zak, first prize winner of the 1937 Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Upon completion of her post-graduate education, her teacher Rudolph Kehrer noted that "during her studies Ludmila demonstrated herself as an exceptional pianist possessing phenomenal virtuosity. Her recitals are always rich in content, deeply thought out, and precise."

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