Gary Graffman

An American concert pianist who lost the use of his right hand's fourth and fifth fingers to a neurological condition mid-career, and rather than retreat from performing, commissioned seven new works written for the left hand alone and gave the UK premiere of Korngold's left-hand piano concerto in 1985. He went on to lead the Curtis Institute of Music, the Philadelphia conservatory where he had trained as a boy, serving as its director and then president.