Originally from the Vancouver area, Graham now resides in southwestern Ontario, where he has been principal clarinetist of Orchestra London since 2008. Trained as a classical musician, he received his Master’s degree in orchestral performance from McGill University, where he was a first-prize winner of the 2007 CBC/McGill competition. In a concert given with the McGill Symphony Orchestra later that year, Graham’s concerto performance was hailed by the Montreal Gazette as a “triumph”, describing his sound as “bright, direct and perfectly suited to Copland.”
Graham's primary teachers were Robert Crowley, during his years in Montreal, and Wesley Foster, the Vancouver Symphony's longtime principal clarinet, at the University of British Columbia, where Graham received his Bachelor's degree. He has also benefitted from training programs such as the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, with whom he toured across the country twice, garnering critical acclaim from reviewers coast to coast for his performance in Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite. This work, as well as many others Graham recorded with the NYOC, have been heard on CBC Radio. He also spent two summers as an apprentice with the National Academy Orchestra in Hamilton, where he performed a great number of major works from the repertoire and gleaned invaluable insight into the orchestral profession. Since joining Orchestra London, he has returned to Hamilton to perform with the NAO as a mentor. More recently, Graham was a fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Yale University's summer music festival. There, he had the privilege of performing alongside and being coached by such distinguished artists as David Shifrin, Richard Stoltzman, and members of the Tokyo String Quartet.
In addition to his work with Orchestra London, Graham has also appeared as a guest with the orchestras of Montreal, Kitchener-Waterloo, Nova Scotia, and Thunder Bay. Locally, he has worked with FFourtissimo, the London Community Orchestra (with whom he appeared as a soloist), and of course the Light of East Ensemble, with whom he is thrilled to be expanding his stylistic horizons and discovering the traditional repertoire of the Near and Middle East.