This included the 30-volume Me and My Piano series, which was co-authored with Thorpe, and sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. She published a number of piano instruction books. She held strong views on piano pedagogy in the UK, blaming electronic keyboards, interruptive mobile phones and insufficient discipline for what she perceived as the country's weakness in generating top-class performers. Waterman's notable students include Paul Crossley, Jonathan Dunsby, Benjamin Frith, Michael Roll and Allan Schiller Roll won the inaugural Leeds competition and her students were also successful in other international competitions. She was a jury member for other international piano competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, Chopin, the Horowitz and the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition. Finalists of the competition who began an international career based on it include Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Sunwook Kim, Federico Colli, Eric Lu, András Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Lars Vogt and Denis Kozhukhin. She was artistic director of the competition and, from 1981, chair of the competition jury, holding the posts until 2015. In 1961, jointly with her pianist friend Marion, Countess of Harewood (later Marion Thorpe), and Roslyn Lyons, she founded the Leeds International Piano Competition.

Leeds International Piano Competition īy the early 1960s, Waterman felt that young British pianists needed a goal to give them a competitive edge over overseas pianists. She played duos with the violinist Erich Gruenberg. The following year, she appeared at The Proms as one of the soloists playing the Bach Concerto for three harpsichords in C major (BWV 1064), conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, but her concert career was disrupted by the Second World War. She started giving public performances, and in 1941 opened the concert season in Leeds with the Leeds Symphony Society. She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied with Cyril Smith. She attended Allerton High School and began to study with Tobias Matthay. Waterman was born in Leeds to Mary (née Behrmann) and Myer Waterman (né Wasserman), a Russian Jew who had emigrated to England to work as a jeweller. 2 Leeds International Piano CompetitionĮarly life, education and career as pianist.1 Early life, education and career as pianist.Their exceptional knowledge and advice have made us feel at ease and we have been really impressed with how approachable and friendly they are. They patiently explained to us everything that we need to know as new landlords and have been doing a wonderful job of managing our property for us. Matt then expertly bid on our behalf at our successful auction which took a lot of stress out of the process.Īfter we bought our property, Kelly and Bianca at Waterman Property Management worked diligently with us around our busy schedule to secure a great tenant.

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