Graham Sterling enjoys a versatile career as a collaborative pianist, organist, and pedagogue. A native of Fredericktown, Pennsylvania, he is currently pursuing his second Masters degree in Organ Performance and Literature under the instruction of David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music.

Sterling currently serves as the Director of Music and Organist at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York. His previous tenures include pianist/organist at Suncrest United Methodist Church in Morgantown, WV and pianist at Roscoe Presbyterian Church in Roscoe, Pennsylvania. He also joined the piano faculty at Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. As a collaborative pianist, Sterling has performed with large ensembles, choirs and operas alongside prestigious musicians such as ASCAP Award Winner Greg Gilpin and Grammy Award Winner Dr. Jeffrey Allen Murdock.

At Eastman, he works as a collaborative pianist for the choral department and holds the UTech Hymnody Fellowship. Additionally, he recently earned the American Guild of Organists’ (AGO) Colleague certification and serves as the local AGO chapter liaison for the Eastman School of Music.

Sterling is a graduate of West Virginia University. He earned a BM in Piano Performance with a minor in Appalachian Music (2023, summa cum laude) and a MM in Collaborative Piano (2025) in the studio of Grammy-nominated pianist Dr. Lucy Mauro. During his time in West Virginia, he studied organ with Dr. William Haller (FAGO).