Meet our SWMS Mentor Team
Graham Lynch
Mentor – Composition & A level tutor
Graham Lynch was born in London. He studied classical piano from an early age but also played keyboards in rock and jazz rock bands during his teenage years. It was an interest in composition that led him to study music at university, where he gained a PhD in composition from King’s College London. He also spent a year at the Royal College of Music as well as studying privately with Oliver Knussen.
Graham’s music has been commissioned and performed in over forty countries, as well as being frequently recorded to CD and featured on radio and television. Performers of his music include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Singers, Orchestra of Opera North, BBC Concert Orchestra, and El Ultimo Tango from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked as an arranger for the Belcea Quartet. His works have been played in venues as diverse as the South Bank, Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Centre Washington, Paris Conservatoire, Palace of Monaco, Venice Biennale, and from the Freiberg Jazz Club to a cake shop in Japan, and everything in between.
An interest in many musical styles has resulted in Graham writing pieces that reach from complex classical works through to compositions that tread the line between classical music and other genres such as tango nuevo, flamenco, jazz, and café music. He has also written educational music for piano.
Okay…if you’ve read this far you’ve got all the official blurb! But the most important thing is that Graham loves sharing his interest and passion for music of all styles, and enjoys meeting and working with students from many different musical backgrounds.
