Fanny Waterman, DBE (Born in Leeds 22/3/1920) her father, Myer Waterman, a Russian Jew, had emigrated to England to work as a jeweller. Appointed: Leeds is a major city in the northern English county of Yorkshire in the United Kingdom and the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire. ...

• OBE (1971),
• CBE (2001);
• DBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours

Waterman also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Music University of Leeds. OBE can mean several things, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, distinction of honour. ... CBE can stand for: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a grade in the Order of the British Empire Calgary Board of Education, public school board for the city of Calgary, Alberta CBE (AM), callsign of the CBC Radio One AM station in Windsor, Ontario CBE-FM, callsign... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross... Parkinson Building, University of Leeds The University of Leeds, England, is one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ...

Waterman began to study with Tobias Matthay when she was 17 and 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 and studied under Cyril Smith. In 1944, she married Dr. Geoffrey de Keyser and in 1950, with the arrival of her first child, gave up her concert career and concentrated on teaching. By the early 1960s, Waterman felt that young British pianists needed a goal to give them a competitive edge with foreign pianists.

In 1961, with the help of her friend Marion Thorpe (then Countess of Harewood) she jointly founded the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. She is artistic director of the Leeds and, since 1981, chairman of the competition jury. Harewood (pronounced Hair-wood) is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Harrogate. ... Leeds is a major city in the northern English county of Yorkshire in the United Kingdom and the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire. ...

Fanny Waterman has achieved success not only as a piano teacher and co-author of the Waterman/Harewood Piano Series, but also as founder and organiser of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition of which she is Chairman and Artistic Director. Her contribution to the city of Leeds was recognised in April 2006, when she was given the Freedom of the City of Leeds – the last recipient being Nelson Mandela in 2001. Mandela redirects here. ...

Waterman is the Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Piano Performance at Leeds College of Music. Located in the outskirts of Leeds inner-city area, the Leeds College of Music is the largest Music college in the UK, with around 1000 students studying full-time and 2000 part-time. ...

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• Faber Music