Graham Fitch

Graham Fitch - professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa - is an English pianist. As a performer, teacher, lecturer and commentator on piano playing, Fitch's workshops and classes have received high praise from critics the world over.who

Biography

First Prizewinner in the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, Fitch graduated with honours from London's Royal College of Music as Hopkinson Gold Medallist. A Fulbright Scholarship then brought him to the United States, where he completed his studies with the renowned pedagogue, Nina Svetlanova, and attended regular classes with Leon Fleisher.During much of the 1990s, Fitch's career comprised solo and chamber performances in England, where he taught piano at the Purcell School, and North America. The "New York Times" described his playing as "unalloyed pleasure". In the United Kingdom he was a solo recitalist at the Bournemouth Festival, and appeared in repeated engagements with the London Chamber Soloists on London's South Bank. In America he played in concerts with the Trio dell'Arte, made various solo appearances and notably performing Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion with timpanist Saul Goodman. More recently an international tour of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" elicited rapturous reviews on four continents, and invitations to return to Australia, New Zealand and the United States ensued.

Today

Graham Fitch is currently Head of Keyboard at the University of Cape Town, and continues to travel extensively to perform and teach. Most recently he has given recitals, masterclasses and keynote addresses at the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference and London's Royal Academy of Music, as well as participating in the Stellenbosch International Piano Symposium.

External links

* [http://www.grahamfitch.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.uct.ac.za/ University of Cape Town]