Mark Weir Graham

Mark Weir Graham is Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music's most fascinating piano technician, depending on who is in the building. He also gets paid to play piano for music theatre students and faculty, which seems like a scam since he enjoys 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. He 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 has made his living working on pianos ever since. He joined the staff of Baldwin-Wallace in 1992, when they still had a hyphen. The Grahams have now enjoyed Ohio for 40 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, and gardening. 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 plans to retire from Baldwin Wallace in May 2019, and then the serious fun will begin.