Pianist Larry Graham has twice scored major successes as the top-ranking American in both the Queen Elizabeth Concours in Brussels (1975), and the Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel-Aviv (1977). The Brussels competition brought Mr. Graham into the public spotlight. His brilliant performances won for him the coveted “Prize of the Public” by an overwhelming vote of the audience that witnessed the finals. Le Soir of Brussels hailed Graham’s popularity as “significant and encouraging. It shows that the popular audience preferred music to virtuosity, charm to velocity, and sentiment to frenzy.” A recording contract with Decca records and professional management followed. As the favorite of the public, he has been invited back numerous times for concerts.

Graham is a native of Oklahoma and received his training at the Juilliard School in New York City, as a scholarship student of Rosina Lhevinne and Martin Canin. Early successes in such piano competitions as the Kosciuszko, Bloch, and G.B. Dealey resulted in his debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1965. In 1969, Mr. Graham won the Concert Artists Guild auditions which led to his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. His mastery of the piano repertoire encompasses works of Bach through Stravinsky. Since the Queen Elizabeth success in 1975, Larry Graham has performed over 30 different concerti with orchestras in the United States and abroad as well as numerous solo engagements.

Larry Graham lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is on the piano faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder.