The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia has produced a host of accomplished and influential classical artists over more than eight decades, among them composers Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem.

HK Magazine: Were you born into a musical family? Gary Graffman: My parents were both Russian. My father was a violinist who studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the famed Leopold Auer ...

Today, Gary Graffman, president of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, says goodbye after 20 years as director of the influential music school. From Graffman's farewell concert ...

John Zorn, the downtown Jewish music guru who will be feted this fall, may be 60, but Gary Graffman is turning 85, and the pianist is celebrating with the release of a 24-CD set that collects all ...

Graffman — whose birthday is being marked with the release of a 24 CD box set on Sony of his entire recorded output — had not been politically active before he received a letter from a student ...

Gary Graffman commissions works for the left hand. Graffman has performed two world premieres of left-handed concertos this season: Daron Hagen’s “Seven Last Words” with the New Mexico ...

The pianist Gary Graffman, former director of the Curtis Institute, where Higdon teaches, describes her as one of a rare breed of contemporary composers – the kind who keeps both musicians and ...

Gary Graffman, former director of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute for Music, demonstrated his Prokofiev specialty last Saturday and Sunday when he performed the Fourth Piano Concerto by the ...