A piano recital by Karl Lutchmayer

Start Date : 4^th April 2023

Piano recital by renowned concert pianist and  lecturer, Karl Lutchmayer. He is  the first Steinway Artist of Indian origin, and has worked with conductors including Lorin Maazel and Sir Andrew Davis. He was awarded Bharat Gaurav (Pride of India) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Biography:

Karl Lutchmayer is equally renowned as a concert pianist and a lecturer. The first Steinway Artist of Indian origin, Karl performs across the globe, and has worked with conductors including Lorin Maazel and Sir Andrew Davis, and performed at all the major London concert halls. He has broadcast on BBC Television and Radio, All India Radio and Classic FM, and is a regular chamber performer. A passionate advocate of contemporary music, Karl has also given over 90 world premieres and had many works written especially for him.

Karl’s London lecture-recital series, Conversational Concerts, has garnered critical and public acclaim, and following his landmark recitals celebrating the Liszt and Alkan Bicentenaries, he has received invitations from 4 continents to give concerts and lecture-recitals. In 2019, he was part of the team introducing the London Prom concerts for BBC television and he curated and performed in a three-day festival of the music of Busoni in London, including a performance of the Piano Concerto for which he received extensive media attention. Karl held an academic lectureship for 15 years at Trinity Laban (formerly Trinity College of Music) in Greenwich, where he was responsible for mentoring numerous music projects in the community, and is a regular guest lecturer at conservatoires around the world, including the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools in New York.

For the last decade, Karl has focussed much of his time and attention on nurturing the burgeoning Western Classical music scene in India, his family home. There, as well as developing audience creation projects in new spaces, he was the first educator to create long-term programmes to support young musicians and their music teachers to fulfil their potential. His success in that role has seen him work as a key consultant for international organisations wishing to support and further that work, and he now advises on education and outreach projects across the country, including as the Dean of Studies for the International Pre-College Music Programme, and the Director of Music for Musiquity. It was for this education work that he was awarded the Bharat Gaurav (Pride of India) Lifetime Achievement award in 2015 and the Indians of the World Medal in June 2022.

Karl studied at the Junior Department of Trinity College of Music, then at the Royal College of Music where he was awarded the Hopkinson Medal by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. He then undertook further studies with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatoire. His research interests include the music of Liszt, Alkan, Busoni and Enescu; The Creative Transcription Network; reception theory; the history of piano recital programming; gesture and performance; and the piano concert arrangement as a challenge to the work concept, which is the subject of his current PhD research at the University of Cambridge.