Graham Fitch is an English pianist and a former professor at the University of Cape Town.
First prize winner in the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, Fitch graduated with honours from London's Royal College of Music as a Hopkinson Gold Medallist. A Fulbright Scholarship then brought him to the United States, where he completed his studies with Nina Svetlanova, and attended regular classes with Leon Fleisher.
During much of the 1990s, Fitch's career comprised solo and chamber performances in England, where he taught piano at the Purcell School, and North America. The New York Times described his playing as "unalloyed pleasure".[1] In the United Kingdom he was a solo recitalist at the Bournemouth Festival, and appeared in repeated engagements with the London Chamber Soloists on London's South Bank. In America he played in concerts with the Trio dell'Arte, made various solo appearances and notably performing Bartók's "Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion" with timpanist Saul Goodman. More recently, an international tour of Bach's Goldberg Variations received positive reviews on four continents and invitations to return to Australia, New Zealand and the United States ensued.
Fitch was Head of Keyboard at the University of Cape Town until 2008. He has given recitals, masterclasses and keynote addresses at the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference and London's Royal Academy of Music,[2] as well as participating in the Stellenbosch International Piano Symposium.[3]