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Dame Fanny Waterman (1920-2020) - some recollections, with love and affection | reviews, news & interviews Dame Fanny Waterman (1920-2020) - some recollections, with love and affection Dame Fanny Waterman (1920-2020) - some recollections, with love and affection The Leeds International Piano Competition's Artstic Director remembers its founder by Adam GatehouseTuesday, 22 December 2020 Dame Fanny Waterman (centre) with 2018 Leeds international Piano Competition Winner Eric Lu (left) and megastar pianist Lang Lang Dame Fanny Waterman was a true force of nature, in the best sense o...

Dame Fanny Waterman obituary Barry Millington © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Simon Wilkinson/Rex/Shutterstock Virtually synonymous with the Leeds International Piano Competition, which she co-founded in 1961, Dame Fanny Waterman, who has died aged 100, was a music teacher who became one of the most prominent personalities in the musical world. “I dreamed it up one night,” she said of “the Leeds”, as it became known universally, “and I was so excited that I woke up my husband.” Unlike Waterman, who was born in Leeds, her husband, Geoffrey de Keyser, a doc...

Dame Fanny Waterman, forceful founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition – obituary ‘A combination of human dynamo and bulldozer’, she transformed her city from a classical backwater into the capital of piano music Dame Fanny Waterman in 2010 Credit: Rob Scott/Rex Dame Fanny Waterman, who has died aged 100, was the author of books and graded tutors which nurtured the talents of young pianists throughout the world; in 1963 she founded the triennial Leeds International Piano Competition, which launched the careers of such virtuosi as Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu. Affectionately ...