Arresting, thoughtful and energetic…
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Caskie is a model of poetic subtlety
and discretion... GRAMOPHONE
Graham Caskie was born in Darlington in 1967. He studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music under Frank Wibaut, Hamish Milne and Alexander Kelly. Graham Caskie has previously taught at The Yehudi Menuhin School and Chetham’s School of Music and now currently teaches at The Royal Academy of Music, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and London College of Music.
Internationally acclaimed pianist Graham Caskie is renowned particularly for his interpretations of the piano music of Brahms and Debussy. Recitals have included most works of Debussy - notably including both Books of Preludes and from Brahms the Sonatas, the complete Klavierstucke and chamber music works. He is also a keen advocate of contemporary music, jazz, ragtime and improvisation, commissioning several works from leading composers including Stephen Goss, Matthew King, John Cooney and Marcel Baudet.
His first professional recording, on the Metier label, included works by Michael Tippett, John McCabe, Paul Patterson and Nigel Clarke, working closely with all these composers prior to the recording. Graham Caskie’s collaborations with composer Stephen Goss began in 2003 with an ideal insomnia, a group of four short pieces for solo piano. Subsequently Caskie’s CD recording Préludes and Interludes, (2008) was a collaboration with Stephen Goss and artist Brian Dunce. Current chamber music partnerships include duos with his wife, Japanese pianist Yoriko Wakabayashi, cellist Thomas Carroll and clarinettist Poppy Beddoe.