Pianist Lorna Griffitt Bedelian, DM, began her performing career at 16 as a soloist with the Louisville Orchestra under the direction of Robert Whitney in a performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor. Her teachers include Gyorgy Sebok and Maria Curcio. She received her doctorate with distinction in piano performance from Indiana University under the tutelage of Menahem Pressler.

Griffitt enjoys an active career as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue here in the US and in South America, Europe and the Middle East. Her performances have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Performance Today with Martin Goldsmith, (broadcast live from Washington, D.C. on NPR), the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, many appearances in Brazil, including the British Embassy in Brasilia, the German Consulate, Sala Cecilia Meireles, Candelaria Cathedral and Centro Cultural Justica Federal in Rio de Janeiro, as well as other major cities in the country. In London, Griffitt has performed at the Conway Hall for the London Chamber Music Series and at the Brazilian Embassy. She has also performed extensively in Italy and France and on live national radio and TV broadcasts in France, Lebanon, Brazil, and Cyprus. In California, she has performed at the LACMA-Music, Sundays Live from the Leo S. Bing Theatre and for Sundays at Four, Dame Myra Hess Concerts, Live Chamber Music Broadcasts on KUSC. At the Barclay Theatre, she has performed for the Philharmonic Society and Laguna Chamber Music Society Series and for the UCI Chancellor’s Distinguished Series with the Chilingirian String Quartet. She has also given chamber music tours in England, France, Portugal and Italy. Her most recent international performance was in July 2026 at St. James’s Church Sussex Gardens for the Schubert Society of Britain.

Griffitt began her teaching career in 1974 at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. After nearly two decades there, she joined the music faculty at the University of California, Irvine in 1993. In 2022, Griffitt recorded in London a compact disc of solo piano and violin duo works by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms with violinist Haroutune Bedelian, produced by Michael Ponder and released by Centaur Records.

Currently during the summers, Griffitt is invited as guest artist to the Orfeo International Music Festival in Bressanone, Italy and to the Rio International Cello Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she teaches, gives master classes and performs in concerto and chamber concerts with various international artists.