Generation 12 · On the path to Rebecca Hardy
Jody Graves
No citation is recorded for this person. That means undocumented, not doubtful — the person was on the 2010 chart and has been neither confirmed nor refuted since.
Jody Graves is an American piano teacher born in 1959. She is one of the three teachers immediately behind Rebecca Hardy, and her page sits at the meeting point of several very different strands of Rebecca’s musical inheritance.
Jody’s own teachers are Margaret Saunders Ott, Bela Nagy, Natalya Antonova, David Rostkoski, and Nelita True. Five teachers lead into one person here, so Jody’s place in the lineage is broad rather than singular: different teachers, experiences, and traditions come together before the line continues to Rebecca.
That position makes Jody a central bridge in the personal part of the lineage. Her page is not only about the link from her to Rebecca; it also opens five routes into the teachers, pianists, and musicians who stand behind her. The linked pages show how those routes begin to separate again as the line moves backward.