Janet Graham

Janet Christine Graham (born 4 June 1948) is an English composer, music educator and music therapist.

Life Graham was born in Consett, County Durham, and studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1966 to 1970 with James Iliff. After her time at the Royal Academy of Music, she began teaching piano at the Mid Hertfordshire Music Centre while continuing to compose and study with Elisabeth Lutyens. In 1978, two of her pieces were selected for the BBC Young Composers' Forum.

Works Selected works include: Pieces for organ: No.1, Prelude Pieces for organ: No.2, Lament Pieces for organ: No.3, Toccata North East Hauntings. 1. Snow Sky North East Hauntings. 2. Sea Mist North East Hauntings. 3. Lullaby for Lost Skylines North East Hauntings. 4. Red Dust Quartet for flute, violin, viola and cello Evening Flights Soliloquium This Great and Wide Sea Persephone Crux Epitaphs Diversitas Atque in perpetuum Cras amet When I Was Young The Light Ca' Hawkie through the water Cradle Song Eighty Notes for James Quest Earth Cry Tractor and Plough From Dusk to Dawn Two Winter Songs Two Christmas Motets Until the Sunset Hour Iris Hecate Four Pieces for Four Bass Clarinets Canta mihi aliquid Three Pieces String Quartet No. 4

Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including: Contemporary Music for Organ Performer: Kevin Bowyer, Audio CD (March 23, 1999) Nimbus Records,