Dec 05 2024 to Dec 05 2024 7 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

This is a BIC Elsewhere event at Sabha: An Arts and Crafts Shaale

Since its origins in the 18th century, the piano has been used by composers to describe places, events, and even to conjure up the sounds of other instruments, from solo violins to full symphony orchestras. In this introduced ‘conversational’ concert, Karl Lutchmayer will guide his audience through more than a century of piano music, exploring the endless versatility of the instrument in bringing real and imagined worlds to life. Along the way, he will play works by some of the most important piano composers, including Beethoven, Liszt and Debussy.

This is a BIC Elsewhere Event

While most of our events find a home at our premises in Domlur, BIC Elsewhere represents our commitment to bringing conversations, arts, and culture directly to diverse audiences. Through this initiative, we collaborate with various venues, extending the reach of our events beyond our own space. These partnerships breathe life into our gatherings and play a crucial role in cultivating an environment for the flourishing of arts and culture in the city.

 Performer
Karl Lutchmayer
Pianist

Karl Lutchmayer is renowned as a concert pianist, a lecturer, and a broadcaster. The first Steinway Artist of Indian origin, he performs worldwide and has worked with conductors, including Lorin Maazel and Sir Andrew Davis. He 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 has also given over 90 world premieres and had many works written especially for him.

Lutchmayer is widely regarded as a leading authority on the music of Busoni which has been central to his career as both an academic and performer for over thirty years. Recently, this culminated in the curation of a three-day Busoni festival in London in which he gave solo and chamber recitals, including a world premiere, and performances of both of Busoni’s piano concertos for which he received extensive critical acclaim.

Lutchmayer studied the piano at the Royal College of Music where Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother awarded him the Hopkinson Medal, and subsequently returned as the Constant and Kit Lambert Fellow. He has also undertaken musicological research at both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He 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, he has focussed much of his time and attention on nurturing the burgeoning Western Classical music scene in India, his family home. 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.