On 22 October 1951, to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt, he performed the complete Transcendental Études in a concert at the Wigmore Hall.
[11] Watson wrote the sleeve notes for the LP recording of classic Egon Petri performances issued by EMI in 1967 as number 7 in its Great Instrumentalists series.
[1] In 1954/55, Watson commissioned a piano concerto from Humphrey Searle (his first), but was unable to be the soloist at the premiere at the Cheltenham Festival in July 1955 as he was touring in Australia.
[16] Gordon Watson played the solo piano part of Brian Easdale's score for the controversial 1960 Michael Powell film Peeping Tom.
[17][18] In 1964 Sir Bernard Heinze appointed Watson to succeed Winifred Burston on the teaching staff of the Sydney Conservatorium.
[19][20] His students included: Gerard Willems,[21] Michael Kieran Harvey,[22] Stephanie McCallum[23] (she dedicated her album "Perfume: The Exquisite Piano Music of France" to her teacher Gordon Watson),[24] Elena Kats-Chernin,[25] Carey Beebe, Barry Walmsley,[26] Brennan Keats,[27] Garry Laycock (1944–88; who also used the professional name Leon Gibbons),[28] Romano Crivici[citation needed] and Peter Carthew.