She was a piano teacher to generations of young musicians and part of the team that has made the Leeds International Piano Competition such a success.

Dorothy Hare (neé Webster) was born near Selby in 1919. An outstanding piano student at Hunmanby Hall school, near Filey, she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where her professor was Percy Waller. Undaunted by the Blitz, she graduated with a GRSM, ARCM and LRAM. As best performing student of her year she was chosen to play a concerto with Sir Henry Wood.

During the later war years she taught at Hunmanby Hall school, which was evacuated to Armathwaite Hall in the Lake District, and then at Manchester High School for Girls. She moved to Leeds and taught for over 30 years at Leeds Girls High School. She will be remembered by countless piano students for her kindness and sensitivity.

She played in many musical groups in Leeds, accompanied choirs and recital soloists and was involved as a volunteer in the Leeds International Piano Competition from its foundation in 1963, for many years as steward to the jury.

Dorothy is survived by Maurice, her husband for 62 years, who was senior master at Leeds Grammar School, 1973-80, and acting headmaster, 1975-76.