Philip Graham

  • As a sought-after chamber musician and interpreter of contemporary music, he performs extensively with the Berlin Notos Piano Quartet and collaborates with numerous contemporary composers
  • Early competition successes and numerous international scholarships as well as studies with renowned professors such as Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and Nicolas Altstaedt at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin, as well as further musical impulses from renowned personalities such as Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet), Lucas Fels (Arditti Quartet), Heinrich Schiff, Steven Isserlis and many more
  • Since 2015, concerts with the Notos Piano Quartet on the most important stages in Europe and beyond in Japan, China, Australia and North America, as well as three albums released by Sony Classical, numerous live recordings, portraits and interviews on radio and television, six first prizes at international competitions and the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany
  • Numerous world premieres of contemporary works, including works by Toshio Hosokawa, Birke Bertelsmeier, David P. Graham, Jörg Widmann, Bernhard Gander, Bryce Dessner, Hakan Ulus and Elena Mendoza
  • In addition to his concert activities, he is committed to promoting young talent, both in the field of chamber music, e.g. as a founding member of the Notos Chambers Music Academy in collaboration with Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, and as a mediator of contemporary music in schools and music schools
  • Together with his father, the British composer David P. Graham, he runs courses on teaching modern compositional styles and interpreting new works for children and young people
  • Plays on cello by Giovanni Battista Grancino from 1700 thanks to generous support from "Merito String Instruments Trust"