About Gary Graffman
Gary Graffman was an American classical pianist, teacher and administrator. After he lost control of his right hand, he gave the UK premiere of Korngold's Piano Concerto for the left hand in 1985, and had seven left-hand works commissioned for him. He became teacher, and later director and president, of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he had studied as a boy. In 1949, Graffman won the Leventritt Competition. Gary Graffman (October 14, 1928 – December 27, 2025) was an American classical pianist, teacher and administrator. After graduating from Curtis in 1946, he made his professional solo debut with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova.
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