British pianist Graham Caskie was born in 1967 in Darlington, and studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music under Frank Wibaut, Hamish Milne and Alexander Kelly. He currently teaches at The Royal Academy of Music  and The Yehudi Menuhin School . He is married to pianist Yoriko Wakabayashi and they live in London with their two children.

A keen advocate of contemporary music, Graham Caskie’s debut CD recording  comprises works by British composers Michael Tippett, Paul Patterson , John McCabe  and Nigel Clarke. Engagements in 2005 include several recitals celebrating Sir Michael Tippett’s centenary. His programme will feature the Tippett Third Piano Sonata, (which he prepared with the composer prior to the above CD recording), An Ideal Insomnia, written for him in 2003 by Stephen Goss   and the Schubert B flat Sonata, D960. (He will bring this programme to the Purcell Room at London’s South Bank Centre on 22nd March 2005.)

Other works written for Graham Caskie include Sonata op.44 (1996) by Christian Alexander  and A Suite for Molly (1998) by Matthew King  . Graham Caskie’s recent engagements have included recitals at London’s South Bank Centre, the Bath Festival, the Guildford Festival and in the USA with the Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble. Current chamber music partnerships include duos with clarinetist Charys Green, and pianist Yoriko Wakabayashi .