Utsav Lal

Utsav Lal (born August 18, 1992) is an Indian pianist, educator, composer and performing musician.Based out of New York, Utsav Lal's work on the piano has been deeply influenced by Dhrupad and Indian classical music.He has performed several piano concerts with a repertoire of Indian ragas at venues including Carnegie Hall,New York, John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC ,India Habitat Centre,New Delhi , KonsertHuset, Sweden , Southbank Centre, London and others.Utsav holds a Honors Bachelor in Jazz (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow) and Masters in Contemporary Improvisation (New England Conservatory of Music, Boston).Lal won Ireland's MAMA Award (2008)for Multiculturalism in the individual category, Yamaha Jazz Scholar award (2014) ,TiE Aspire Young Indian Achiever Award ( 2012) and was named as a Young Steinway Artist (2010) by piano makers Steinway & Sons.Indian record label,Times Music released his debut album Piano Moods of Indian Ragas in 2008.Subsequent album releases are Ragas Dance off Piano Keyss, Ragas Al Pianoforte, Ragas to Reels and a solo recording of ragas on the 'Fluid Piano', released by the Fluid Piano Tuning label ( 2016).Utsav Lal recently released his sixth album Indian Classical Music on the Piano featuring tabla player Nitin Mitta in November 2018.Utsav has collaborated with several Irish musicians including Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Sam Comerford , Dave Sheridan , Winifred Horan and is recognised for his Ragas to Reels concert tours bringing together Indian classical music and Traditional Irish music in a Piano and flute combination.He has also performed in collaboration with Indian musicians including sitar player Hidayat Hussain Khan, violinist Sharat Chandra Srivastava , percussionists Talvin Singh , Pt. Samir Chatterjee , flautist Rakesh Chaurasia.Utsav Lal is currently on the teaching faculty of Piano School of NYC has conducted several Performance workshops at venues including Global Music Institute, India and Breaking Boundaries workshop series in India and USA.