Jul 18 2025 to Jul 18 2025 7 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The solitude of the night-time has always been a space where humans release their innermost thoughts, whether of comfort, terror, liberation, wistfulness or hope. As such, many of the finest works of art have been inspired by its thrall. Karl Lutchmayer’s recital discusses and presents some powerful emotional responses to the darkness by a quintet of composer-pianists who represent a pantheon of Romantic and Modernist ethea. From yearning lullabies, intimate reminiscences, and nocturnal soundscapes to religious ecstasy, and gothic horror, each showcases the extraordinary resources of the piano and the technical and emotional range of the pianist’s art.

Image Credit:

Thumbnail, Header and Poster: Photos of Karl Lutchmayer by Param Singh

Presented by the International Music and Arts Society

With the support of Furtados and Steinway

The International Music and Arts Society gratefully acknowledges the support of Shashi Uthappa and V Natarajan.

Performer

Karl Lutchmayer
Pianist
Karl Lutchmayer is equally renowned as a concert pianist, a lecturer, and a broadcaster. The first Steinway Artist of Indian origin, he performs across the globe and has played at all the major London concert halls. He has worked with conductors, including Lorin Maazel and Sir Andrew Davis, and has broadcast on BBC Television and Radio, All India Radio, and Classic FM. 

Particularly acclaimed for his lecture recitals, over the last twenty-five years Lutchmayer’s landmark London series, Conversational Concerts™, has included festivals to celebrate the Liszt and Alkan bicentenaries and the music of Enescu. He is widely regarded as a leading authority on the music of Busoni, which culminated in the curation of a three-day Busoni festival in London in which he gave solo and chamber recitals and received extensive critical acclaim. He has given over 90 world premieres and had many works written especially for him. 

Lutchmayer studied the piano at the Royal College of Music where he was awarded the Hopkinson Medal by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and subsequently returned as the Constant and Kit Lambert Fellow. He also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was a senior academic lecturer for 15 years at Trinity Laban (formerly Trinity College of Music) in Greenwich, and has lectured at conservatoires around the world, including the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools in New York, and at the University of Oxford. 

For the last decade he has focussed much of his time and attention on nurturing the burgeoning Western classical music scene in India. He is now based in Goa, his family home, and, as Head of Music and Pedagogy for MTB (Music Teachers Board), India, teaches and mentors young musicians and music educators. It was for his 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.