Graham Fitch
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Graham Fitch is an English pianist and piano teacher.
Fitch was the first prize winner in the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition,[when?] and graduated with honours from London's Royal College of Music as a Hopkinson Gold Medalist. He came to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship and completed his studies with Nina Svetlanova.[citation needed] A 1985 review in The New York Times described his playing as "unalloyed pleasure".[1]
During the 1990s, Fitch performed in England, where he taught piano at the Purcell School.[citation needed] He was a solo recitalist at the Bournemouth Festival, and appeared in repeat engagements with the London Chamber Soloists on London's South Bank.[citation needed] In America he played solo and in concerts with the Trio dell'Arte.[citation needed] Fitch was an associate professor at the University of Cape Town until 2008.[citation needed] He gave recitals, masterclasses and keynote addresses at the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference and London's Royal Academy of Music and[2] participated in the Stellenbosch International Piano Symposium in 2008.[3]