Graham Fitch
Graham Fitch, based in London, maintains an international career
as a pianist, teacher, adjudicator, lecturer and writer. He won the
Hopkinson Gold Medal at the Royal College of Music, and first prize
in the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition in the USA; The New York
Times speaking of his playing as "unalloyed pleasure".
Graham Fitch taught piano at the Purcell School, then in 1997
was appointed Associate Professor, Head of Keyboard at the South
African College of Music, University of Cape Town, where he stayed
for over a decade. From there, he travelled extensively to perform
and teach. An international tour of Bach's Goldberg Variations
elicited rapturous reviews on four continents, culminating in a
performance in New York’s Merkin Hall as part of the Bach year’s
celebrations. He gave keynote addresses at four successive
Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conferences, and was in residence at
London's Royal Academy of Music in 2006. In 2012 he will
embark on a tour of Singapore, Brisbane and Melbourne (where he
will give performances and masterclasses).
His classes have received high praise for their creative and
illuminating approach to the subject - among Graham’s prizewinning
students are Daniel Grimwood and James Baillieu (who has recently
been appointed to the teaching staff at the Royal Academy of
Music). Graham is also a writer, with several articles published in
the musical press, including Pianist Magazine. He is also the
author of a highly successful blog, practisingthepiano.com.