Mark Weir Graham

Mark Weir Graham was Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music's most fascinating piano technician until 2019, depending on who was in the building. He joined the staff in 1992, when BW was still a College with a hyphen. He also was paid to play piano for music theatre students and faculty, which seemed like a scam since he enjoyed it so much, but there you are.. 

He was born in West Germany to Air Force parents, and grew up in a musical family with three brothers and a sister. The family moved around a bit, but Mark graduated from Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio, in 1970, and then2 found his way west to the University of Montana, graduating with a degree in Forest Resource Management in 1974. After working for the Forest Service in Montana and Idaho and in the oilfields of Wyoming, he ditched it all and moved to Los Angeles where he studied piano with the legendary Earle Voorhies and worked as a free-lance musician. He married his wife Thea, a native of the Netherlands, in Pasadena in 1977. In 1978 they moved back to the Cleveland area to raise a family. Their two children are now grown and married. In 1979, Mark enrolled at the Perkins School of Piano Technology in Elyria, Ohio, and made his living working on pianos till he realio trulio retired in 2026. The Grahams have now enjoyed Ohio for 48 years, and find it to be just the right mix of seasons, culture, good people, and natural beauty.

Interests include people, pianos, playing hammered dulcimer and accordion (not at the same time), family, his best pal Charlie Dog, writing, and gardening. He has published a hymnal, and one other unfortunate book, “God, the Novel: A Possibility” under the dumb name of R. E. Amnos because his publisher said there were too many Mark Grahams. He is also a composer, and was thrilled and honored to have his 50-minute set of choir pieces "The Songs Of Ascents" performed by the BW Singers in April 2018. (You can hear them here.) He is by now all but forgotten as a pianist and tuner, and so is mostly known today as a quirky old grandpa who tends his flowers and vegetables and torments his neighbors in Berea, Ohio, with his tomato surplus. He enjoys playing for English Country Dances and contra dances in the Cleveland area.