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“ALL roads lead to Leeds and all roads lead from Leeds:” The legendary Leeds piano teacher who died last month, delivered her strapline to a glittering audience at the Finals of the 14th Leeds International Piano Competition. One summer night in 1961, Fanny Waterman discussed with husband Dr Geoffrey de Keyser her audacious proposal for a world class piano competition in the city. The popular Morley family doctor with an encyclopedic knowledge of piano music, was at first dismissive: “This must be held in London”. Geoffrey’s response merely stiffened Fanny’s resolve. A steering committee soon swung into action. Those on the “key board” were Fanny, Geoffrey, Roslyn Lyons - wife of the Leeds financier and arts philanthropist Jack Lyons, and concert pianist Marion Lascelles (nee Stein) Countess of Harewood from 1949-67. Fanny had taught the Lascelles boys to play the piano. She later confided in David, now Lord Harewood, that he had been one of her worst ....
BBC News Published image captionDame Fanny s exacting teaching style saw her dubbed Field Marshal Fanny Dame Fanny Waterman, the legendary piano teacher who founded the world-renowned Leeds International Piano Competition, has died aged 100. It was announced on Sunday that she had died peacefully in her residential care home in Ilkley, Yorkshire. Dame Fanny was a gifted pianist herself before turning to teaching and setting up the competition she ran for 54 years before stepping down in 2015. Its current artistic director said she was a force of nature [and] one-off . Adam Gatehouse went on to call her a unique figure in our cultural firmament who infused everyone with whom she came into contact with a passion and enthusiasm and sheer love of music . ....
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 known throughout Leeds as “Field Marshal Fanny”, Fanny Waterman made up with her iron will and Yorkshire blunt-speaking for what she lacked in physical stature. One former winner of the Leeds competition described her as “a combination of human dynamo and bulldozer” and, until she was well into her nineties, she presided over the event with nit-picking attention to ....