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Graham Lynch: Lyrical and dazzling miniatures.

Graham Lynch was born in London, and his early musical experiences varied from classical piano lessons to playing keyboards in rock bands. Soon he was also studying jazz, and then an interest in composition took him to university and music college, including time at Kings College London and the Royal College of Music.

Graham has worked as a composer of both classical and tango pieces. His music has been performed, recorded and broadcast, by leading orchestras and ensembles in over thirty countries, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra of Opera North, and the BBC Singers. His works have been played in venues as diverse as the South Bank, Wigmore Hall, Merkin Hall New York, Paris Conservatoire, Palace of Monaco, and from the Freiberg Jazz Club to a cake shop in Japan, and everything in between.

A longstanding interest in the student piano repertoire and its possibilities lead Graham to create the Sound Sketches series. This album is a recording he made of a selection of pieces from the books.

"Pieces that confirm Lynch as one of the modern masters of the musical miniature"
(International Piano Magazine)

"Lynch has a gift for packing entire worlds into a few minutes. His ability to present so much wonder, colour and philosophy into so short a span reminds me of the bejeweled and mysterious piano music of Federico Mompou."
(International Record Review)

  Graham Lynch

[Sound Sketches by Graham Lynch]

Sound Sketches
Graham Lynch lives in Penzance, England.

Tagged as: Classical, Neoclassical, Jazz, Impressionism, Instrumental, Classical Piano.

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