Enrique Graf, piano mentor
Enrique Graf 2007 © Steve J. Sherman
AS PROMISED, below is part 2 of our interview with Enrique Graf, Artist in Residence at the College of Charleston, who will be performing next Tuesday night at the Sottile Theatre. The interview speaks for itself, but here are a few more interesting things you might want to know about Enrique’s background.
He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay where he started studying piano at the age of four. After winning all of the national competitions in Uruguay, he attended the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University to study with Leon Fleisher on a full scholarship.
In 1977, he and Katherine Jacobson won First Prize in the National Ensemble Two Piano Competition. The following year, Enrique was the First Prize winner in the William Kapell International Piano Competition. And in 1981 he won the East and West International Competition in New York City.
Enrique’s all Francis Poulenc CD with the Charleston Symphony was a pick of the month by the Sunday London Times and was awarded five stars in Classic CD. And Paul Hume of the Washington Post said of his debut recording (Enrique Graf plays Bach) that it was “an end to the discussion of whether of not Bach should be played on the piano.”
Just in case you missed it, you can see part 1 of the interview here.
