Welcome to my website! Please scroll down for upcoming concerts and events.
In November I presented a lecture-demonstration on “Incorporating Improvisation into the Classical Piano lesson” at the South Carolina Music Teachers Association Annual Conference at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ZtguWf93k
I am thrilled to have joined the faculty of the Petrie School of Music at Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina as a full-time professor of piano. Please visit www.converse.edu/academics/arts/petrie-school-of-music for more information. Also look for my CD, “Astro Dogs & Other Piano Works.” It is music of John Carbon and is released on Convivium Records and has Naxos worldwide distribution. Please visit https://conviviumrecords.co.uk/product/astro-dogs/ for more information.
I recently gave a world premiere of a new piano concerto by John Carbon at the Barshinger Center in Pennsylvania. Here is the YouTube link. I hope you enjoy it!
http://youtu.be/FEz6tnNbQ3Y
I am pleased to announce the release of a new solo CD on Zimbel Records: John Carbon Piano Music Played by Steven Graff.
"In this recital of wall-to-wall premiere recordings, Graff plays Carbon with a comfortable authority, easily equal to the virtuosity of the Sonata, but with the experience and expressiveness necessary to communicate the timbral and textural nuances of the Spanish Lessons."
- Len Mullenger of MusicWeb International
Please visit the following websites for details:
Zimbel Records
CDBaby
Amazon
You can also find my CD of contemporary American piano music on Centaur Records: Music From America’s First and Second Cities. It is a collection of contemporary piano music by composers from New York (Barber, Gershwin and Del Tredici) and Chicago (Muczynski, Sowerby and La Montaine).
"Pianist Steven Graff plays all of the preceding music with passion and no little flair. He has a fluid, natural sense of rhythm, especially notable in the Sowerby and Del Tredici. He is formidable, as well, in the widely played Gershwin and Barber..."
For more biographical information, please visit Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Graff.
Here are some upcoming concerts and events. I hope to see you there!
Beethoven Choral Fantasy with The Canterbury Choral Society, Jonathan De Vries, conductor, at Church of The Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street, New York City. For more information contact: canterburychoral.org
Violins of Hope concert with Courtney LeBauer at Daniel Recital Hall at The Petrie School of Music at Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC
The Converse Trio at Daniel Recital Hall at The Petrie School of Music at Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC. Courtney LeBauer, violin, Kathy Foster, cello, and Steven Graff, piano. Works by Arvo Pärt. Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Livestream: https://www.converse.edu/daniel-live
Guest adjudicator, Asheville Area Piano Forum’s Student Competition
Asheville, North Carolina.
Music Teachers National Association Conference
Solo Recital at Daniel Recital Hall, The Petrie School of Music, Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Daniel Recital Hall Livestream: Click here
Uprooting the Performer: Music in Motion
This event will explore performance approaches that breakthrough traditional performance practice restrictions. Performers, including various Converse students and faculty, will be moving, interacting, and using different spaces during the recital. Featuring works by W.A. Mozart, Eric Ewazen, Jenni Brandon, Rebecca Clarke, and more. This event is free and open to the public. Daniel Recital Hall at Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Performance with oboist Kelly Vaneman at Daniel Recital Hall, The Petrie School of Music, Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Daniel Recital Hall Livestream: Click here
Performance of newly composed chamber music at The College Music Society Regional Conference, Southern Chapter, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi.
Guest adjudicator, Concerto Competition, Furman University, Greenville,
South Carolina.
The Converse Trio at Daniel Recital Hall at The Petrie School of Music at Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC. Courtney LeBauer, violin, Kathy Foster, cello, and Steven Graff, piano. Works tba.
Daniel Recital Hall Livestream: Click here
Presentation at The South Carolina Music Teachers Annual Conference, at USC Columbia, “Improvisation for the Classical Piano Student.” For information please visit https://scmta.org
New Jersey Music Teachers Association Piano Competition,
guest adjudicator.
Faculty recital with flutist Chris Vaneman at Daniel Recital Hall, The Petrie School of Music, Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Works by William Grant Still, George Gershwin, Paul Schoenfield, David Berry, Florence Price, Charles Griffes and Aaron Copland.
Daniel Recital Hall Livestream: Click here
The Converse Trio at Greensboro Day School in Greensboro, North Carolina. Piano trios by Fanny Mendelsohn Hensel and Clara Schumann. Courtney LeBauer, violin, Kathy Foster, cello, and Steven Graff, piano.
Solo performance on The Carlos Moseley Series, “Petrie at The Piedmont” at The Piedmont Club, 361 East Main Street, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Works by Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and assorted piano arrangements of classics from the American Songbook. For tickets visit www.converse.edu/box-office
Radio broadcast of Leo Sowerby’s From The Northland on South Carolina Public Radio’s Sonatas and Soundscapes, hosted by Bradley Fuller. Please visit www.southcarolinapublicradio.org for more info.
A solo recital at The Strand Theatre at Hudson River Music Hall, 210 Main Street, Hudson Falls, NY. For more info please visit www.mystrandtheater.org.
Collaborative Artist at The MasterWorks Festival, Converse University, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
The Converse Trio presents Trio in D Minor by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Trio in D Minor by Felix Mendelssohn at Daniel Recital Hall at The Petrie School of Music at Converse University, 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC. Courtney LeBauer, violin, Kathy Foster, cello and Steven Graff, piano.
Daniel Recital Hall Livestream: Click here
Music Teachers Association of California, Sacramento County Branch: “Baroque to the Future” Piano Festival and Competition, guest adjudicator.
New Jersey Music Teachers Association Piano Competition, guest adjudicator.
College Music Society National Conference: “Fostering Equity and Opportunity in Music.”
A solo recital at Hunter College, The Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City.
A recital with violinist Rachel Hauser at Kaufman Music Center, Ann Goodman Recital Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City. Sonatas by Mozart and Copland. Proceeds support Special Music School.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Piano Concerto in C, with Jonathan De Vries, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. For more information visit: www.canterburychoral.org.
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83 with conductor Eric Kramer and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at Second Avenue), New York City. Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
Piano solos with jazz band at “A Festival of Gospel Music,” presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, Jonathan De Vries conductor, Church of the Heavenly Rest, 1085 Fifth Avenue at 90th Street. Tickets available via SMARTTIX.com or at the door. Music by Rollo Dilworth, Duke Ellington and Nicholas White.
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (Two Piano and Percussion Version) with the Hunter College Choir, Michael Sheetz, conductor, Hunter College Assembly Hall, 695 Park Avenue, New York City. Tickets available at the box office.
A Benefit Concert for Music For Everyone (musicforeveryone.org), at the First Reformed Church, 40 East Orange Street, Lancaster, PA. Chamber music works by John Mackey, Paul Schoenfeld, Astor Piazzolla, Antonin Dvorak and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
A chamber music concert presented by the Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concert Series, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Trios by Beethoven, Grieg and Schumann. For ticket information please visit: www.takaezustudioconcerts.com
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City
Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21 with Jonathan De Vries, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. For more information visit: www.canterburychoral.org.
Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat Major, Op. 10 with conductor Eric Kramer and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at Second Avenue), New York City. Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
A chamber music concert presented by the Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concert Series, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. For ticket and program information please visit: www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Guest artist at the New York Philharmonic Education sponsored Chamber Music Concert, LeFrak Concert Hall at Kupferbert Center for the Arts at Queens College. Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G Minor.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Drucker and Dvorak. For ticket and program information please visit: www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) with conductor Eric Kramer and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue), New York City. Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. For ticket and program information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Haydn, Dvorak and Fanny Mendelssohn. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A solo piano recital presented by The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works tba. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts. Works by Beethoven, Brahms and Grieg. For ticket information and concert venue please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Piazzolla. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22 with Jonathan De Vries, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. For more information visit: www.canterburychoral.org.
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54 with Kyunghun Kim, conductor, and the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York, Norman Thomas Auditorium, 111 East 33rd Street (NE corner of Park Avenue). Please visit www.doctorsorchestra.org for details.
A solo recital at Meadow Ridge, 100 Redding Road, Redding Connecticut. For ticket information contact info@meadowridge.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio,
1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Haydn, Brahms and Franck. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A solo recital at The Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bar Harbor Congregational Church, 29 Mount Desert St, Bar Harbor, Maine. (Also pre-concert lecture on July 1st, details tba) For ticket information please visit www.barharbormusicfestival.org.
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Jonathan De Vries, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. For more information visit: www.canterburychoral.org.
Mini-recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation, for the Bar Harbor Music Festival Spring Benefit (6:00 p.m. cocktails, 7:00 p.m. piano recital, 7:45 p.m. buffet dinner). Works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. For ticket information please visit www.barharbormusicfestival.org/events.html.
Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 with Kyunghun Kim, conductor, and the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York, Norman Thomas Auditorium, 111 East 33rd Street (NE corner of Park Avenue). Please visit www.doctorsorchestra.org for details.
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
A recital with cellist Philip Ewell at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City. Works by Brahms and Debussy.
Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat Major with Charles Dodsley Walker, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral
Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Lecture at The Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York, 35 West 67th Street, New York City: “Building Tomorrow’s Audience for Classical Music.” Part of Macaulay’s Topics and Tapas series.
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City.
Pianist for The Village Light Opera Group’s performances of Accommodating Kate, a new musical by Peter Knopp and Peter Homans, at Hunter College, 65 Park Avenue, New York City. For details and tickets please visit www.villagelightopera.org.
A solo piano recital at The Maple Grove Concert Series, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, New York.
The world premiere of a new piano concerto by John Carbon with The Allegro Chamber Orchestra and conductor Brian Norcross, The Barshinger Center for Musical Arts, Franklin & Marshall College, College Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Here is the YouTube link: http://youtu.be/FEz6tnNbQ3Y
A piano master class at Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street, New York City.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
Piano Trios with violinist Michael Jamanis and cellist Sara Male, Lititz Church of the Brethren Concert Series, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A two-week concert tour of China as concerto soloist with the Manhattan Symphonie under the baton of Gregory Singer. George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue will be performed in eight cities, starting in Beijing.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor with David Grunberg, conductor, and The Spectrum Symphony, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus Avenue at West 60th Street, New York City. Please visit spectrumsymphony.org for details.
A solo piano recital at The Maple Grove Concert Series, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, New York.
A recital with cellist Laura Metcalfe at the Sunday Concert Series, Church of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York.
A piano master class at Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street, New York City.
A recital with violinist Steven Zynszajn at the Classical Interludes Series at Dweck Auditorium, Brooklyn Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York.
A solo recital at The Hudson River Music Hall, 122 Main Street, Hudson Falls, New York. For info and tickets please call 518-747-0778.
A fundraising concert for the Japan Disaster Relief Fund at The Japan American Association, 15 West 44th Street, New York City. Solo and chamber music works will be performed. For information contact info@jaany.org.
A recital on the Dame Myra Hess Concert series with violinist Steven Zynszajn in Chicago at Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on WFMT Fine Arts Radio.
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City.
A solo recital at the Sunday Concert Series, Church of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York.
Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit: www.nysae.net for details.
A piano master class at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Works of contemporary American composer, John Carbon.
A solo recital at The Hudson River Music Hall, 122 Main Street, Hudson Falls, New York. For info and tickets please call 518-747-0778.
A concert of Beethoven and Cherubini: works from 1816, sponsored by The Canterbury Chorale Society, The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street, New York City.
A recital with soprano Fang Tao Jiang at Thalia Hall at Symphony Space. Songs by Bellini, Handel, Schubert, Strauss, Liszt, Debussy, and Huangzi. The operatic selections include arias from The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Romeo and Juliet, and Turandot . For details, visit www.symphonyspace.org.
MacDowell's Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit: www.nysae.net for details.
A solo recital at Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street (off Sixth Avenue), New York City.
Lautreamont Concerts presents an all-tango program at The Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, New York City. Works by Astor Piazzolla, Osvaldo Pugliese, Anibal Troilo and Agustin Bardi. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
 Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor with Charles Dodsley Walker, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Chorale Society, the Church of The Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street, New York City.
Lautreamont Concerts presents a Schumann Bicentennial program, Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 68th Street. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
Lautreamont Concerts presents solo and chamber works at The Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, New York City. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor with Kyunghun Kim, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit: www.nysae.net for details.
Beethoven's Cello Sonata in A Major with Leigh Stuart at The Sunday Concert Series, Church of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York. Please visit www.goodshepherdchapel.net for details.
A solo recital at Hunter College. Works by living American composers, including the world premiere of Phillip Ramey's "Djebe Bani" (Saharan Meditation), the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street.
Lautreamont Concerts presents solo and chamber works at The Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, New York City. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
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