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Keval Shah is a British-Indian collaborative pianist who earned a bachelor’s degree in Music from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a master’s degree with distinction (DipRAM, 2017) from the Royal Academy of Music, London. He specializes in song accompaniment and the Lied repertoire, and currently serves as Lecturer of Lied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, having been the institution’s youngest professor at the time of appointment.
Shah won First Prize at the Hugo Wolf Academy International Art Song Competition (2022) and Second Prize at the Copenhagen Lied Duo Competition (2019), and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2022. He has been the official pianist for the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition since 2019 and performs regularly at venues including Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, and Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, with broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and recordings for Decca Classics.