Graham Caskie
was born in Darlington in 1967, and studied at the Birmingham
Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music under Frank Wibaut, Hamish
Milne and Alexander Kelly. He currently teaches at The Royal
Academy of Music and Chetham’s School of Music as well as at
the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Particularly renowned for his interpretations
of the piano music of Debussy, Ravel, Brahms and Schubert, Graham
is also a keen advocate of contemporary music; his first CD
recording in 1993 for the Metier label included the Tippett Third
Sonata, a work which he had previously studied with the
composer.
Current chamber music partnerships include a
duo with cellist Thomas Carroll, introducing into their programmes
new works specially written for them by composer Stephen Goss.
HIs first recording for the Cadenza label was
the critically acclaimed CD, Preludes and Interludes,
for which Stephen Goss was commissioned to write
nine Interludes, designed to be played amongst the
Twelve Debussy Preludes, Book One.
This year Graham will release a new CD on
the Cadenza label comprising the Chopin E minor
Concerto with the Badke String Quartet and the Chopin Cello Sonata
with Thomas Carroll.