Elisabeth Waterhouse

Elisabeth Waterhouse ( on 28 February 1933) is an English pianist and music pedagogue. She founded the National Chamber Music Course, a summer school for young string players, in 1974, and has managed it since. She is the widow of the bassoonist and musicologist William Waterhouse.

Early life and education Ritchie studied piano at the Royal College of Music with Frank Merrick. She also studied with Friedrich Wührer and Hugo Steurer in Munich. In 1992, she was the pianist in the world premiere of the Chamber Concerto V by Elliott Schwartz in Amsterdam, with her husband as the bassoonist and the Utrecht String Quartet. The book, titled The Bassoon, made extensive use of source material which William had gathered in the Waterhouse Music Barn,

The Proud Bassoon Waterhouse initiated a memorial concert for her husband close to what would have been his 80th birthday, held on 16 April 2011 at Wigmore Hall and titled The Proud Bassoon. Among the players were their children, Gervase de Peyer and Timothy Brown as former members of the Melos Ensemble, players who succeeded him such as Roger Birnstingl (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) and Julie Price (BBC Symphony Orchestra), bassoonists from around the world, such as Jim Kopp, Lyndon Watts and Takashi Yamakami, his students and a bassoon quartet from the RNCM, led by Stefano Canuti. All the music played related to him. She is an outdoor swimmer.