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"The absurdly young and prodigiously gifted Keval Shah. If you haven’t yet heard of him, you very soon will.”

MusicOMH, March 2020

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In the 2022/2023 season Keval will give recitals across Europe, including venues in London, Helsinki, Stuttgart, Salzburg and Marseille. Highlights include a recital at Wigmore Hall with Karita Mattila and a debut recital at the Mozarteum Stiftung with Rolando Villazon and Theodore Platt, as well as an invitation to be a scholar of the Imogen Cooper Music Trust, working with Dame Imogen Cooper and Henk Neven.

 

In recent seasons, Keval's performances have included Schubert's Winterreise with Roderick Williams OBE, Saariaho songs in the presence of the composer with Anu Komsi, and recitals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Leeds Lieder Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Heidelberger Frühling and regular appearances at the Oxford Lieder Festival.

Keval's competition successes include First Prize at the Hugo Wolf Academy International Art Song Competition 2022 and Second Prize at the Copenhagen Lied Duo Competition 2019, both with Theodore Platt, and winning the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform in 2017 with Michael Mofidian. Keval’s performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Danish National Radio (DRP2), and he has recorded for Decca Classics. Since 2019, Keval has been the official pianist of the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition.

Keval read Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating from both institutions with distinction, and from the Academy with the prestigious DipRAM in 2017. In 2022 Keval was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), in recognition of outstanding contribution to the music profession. He studied with Michael Dussek, Audrey Hyland, and Malcolm Martineau, and completed his training as an Oxford Lieder Young Artist and a Britten-Pears Young Artist. He has also benefitted from tuition with Helmut Deutsch, Bengt Forsberg, and Roger Vignoles, and is currently studying with Tuija Hakkila. 

Away from the concert platform, Keval is active as a broadcaster and researcher. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 programmes including Essential Classics, Record Review and Inside Music.

In 2022, Keval will host his own BBC series, 'The Art of Accompaniment', and present a programme on the music of Kaija Saariaho, for BBC World Service.
In addition to teaching at the Sibelius Academy, Keval has also taught at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Danish Academy of Music, the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Academy of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University. 
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