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Graham is a London-based composer, orchestrator and professional vocalist. He has worked for some of the music industry's leading figures, including Academy Award winning composer James Horner and Grammy Award winning producer and composer Simon Franglen. In 2022, Graham spent the year working as a member of the core music team on “Avatar: The Way of Water”.

In films, Graham has orchestrated for several projects with film composer Simon Franglen, including Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “Notre Dame Brule”, “The Curse of Turandot” - a Chinese fantasy epic, “Peppermint” - an action feature starring Jennifer Garner, and “The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu”. Graham was also Orchestra Producer for “Brahmastra Part One: Shiva” - the most expensive Bollywood film ever made.

Graham was part of the music team for "Pandora - The World of Avatar" at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida. A truly epic undertaking which lasted almost 3 years!

As part of the team at Jigsaw Music, in 2023 Graham orchestrated on “Sleeping Dogs” starring Russell Crowe and Karen Gillan, animated feature sequel “200% Wolf”, and contributed orchestrations for Russell Morris’ concert “The Real Thing - Symphonic Concert”. He has also orchestrated for “Escape from Pretoria” starring Daniel Radcliffe, IMAX documentaries “Sea Lions: Life by a Whisker” and “Out of Bounds”, Netflix feature “Feel The Beat”, “100% Wolf ” - an Australian animated feature, zombie comedy “Little Monsters” starring Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad, official Sundance entrant “Corporate Animals”, and the IMAX documentary "Turtle Odyssey", narrated by Russell Crowe.

Graham composed the original score for award-winning independent horror short, "The Flytipper", John Clisham’s “Blackout”, Josh Dickinson’s single-shot short film “Spiral” and micro-short “Alibi”.

On albums, in 2018 Graham orchestrated 4 tracks on Rolando Villazon’s Christmas album “Feliz Navidad”. He also contributed orchestrations on Alexis Ffrench's "Evolution". In 2017, Graham was the Music Supervisor and lead orchestrator for Josh Piterman's debut album, and also orchestrated for Grammy-nominated producer Jon Cohen on Shulem Lemmer's "The Perfect Dream". In 2012, Graham also orchestrated for "Double Platinum" - the tenth studio release of The Ten Tenors.

In 2014, Graham was the Choral Director and Lead Vocalist for "Living In The Age of Airplanes", a feature-length IMAX documentary with original music by the late James Horner and narrated by Harrison Ford. In 2016, Graham was the soloist for "König Opa", an award-winning short film composed by Christoph Zirngibl, as well as a featured vocalist on the game soundtrack for "Planet Explorers", composed by Aakaash Rao.

Graham also has considerable experience as a live vocalist. From 2012-2013, Graham played Frankie Valli in the Australasian tour of the hugely successful stage musical "Jersey Boys" - a role he reprised on the UK National Tour in 2015. Prior to this, he toured the world for 4 years with multi-platinum recording group "The Ten Tenors", for whom he was also the Musical Director. Highlights included "The Oprah Winfrey Show", "The Melbourne Cup 2008 & 2011", "Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon" and performing for the President of Peru in front of 25,000 people.

Graham has been a choral conductor for multiple sessions at Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios in London. Projects include "Pandora - The World of Avatar", Rolando Villazon’s “Feliz Navidad” and Will Martin's third album “By Request”, produced by Steven Baker

Graham as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. Photo by Jeff Busby

Graham as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. Photo by Jeff Busby

Graham with Steven Baker after conducting the choir sessions of Pandora - World of Avatar at the world famous Abbey Road Studios

Graham with Steven Baker after conducting the choir sessions of Pandora - World of Avatar at the world famous Abbey Road Studios