“…all this music possesses a personal and engaging quality expressed with a clear and lucid compositional skill…many colourful influences combine to create an individual impression, a distinctive flavour”
Gramophone

“His harpsichord music is not derived from Couperin – he does not copy its style and ornaments – but is the nearest we have to an equivalent: highly expressive, well articulated and full of imagery”
Naxos

Graham Lynch was born in London, and he gained a PhD from King’s College London as well as having lessons with Oliver Knussen. Subsequent to his studies he moved to a remote part of the North West Highlands of Scotland, where he gradually rethought his musical language, before settling in Penzance where he has been for over twenty years. During this time he’s remained largely outside the arena of British classical music and his compositions have flourished elsewhere

Graham’s music has been commissioned and performed in over forty countries, as well as being frequently recorded to CD and featured on radio and television. Although the majority of his performances still take place outside the UK performers of his music include the likes of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, and El Ultimo Tango from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Ensembles and soloists who have taken up his pieces include The Eastman Saxophone Project, Onyx Brass, Ellipsos Saxophone Quartet, Faux Pas Ensemble, Helsinki Guitar Duo, Mahan Esfahani, Mark Tanner, Jane Chapman, and Paul Simmonds. He has also worked as an arranger for the Belcea Quartet.

Graham enjoys close and ongoing collaborations with a number of performers, including Assi Karttunen (Finland), Rody van Gemert (Finland) and Paul and Kayleen Sánchez (US). In the last years his works have been played in venues as diverse as the South Bank, Royal Albert Hall, Kennedy Centre, Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, the Barbican, Merkin Hall New York, Paris Conservatoire, the Venice Biennale, Palace of Monaco, and from the Freiberg Jazz Club to a cake shop in Japan, and everything in between.

St. Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Penzance