Pallavi Mahidhara
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Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara made her orchestral debut at the age of 10, performing at the
Ravinia Festival in Chicago. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia, and her Master’s Degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She studied
for several years with Dimitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, where she is now
the Artistic Advisor and a Piano Pr ofessor for their Music & Culture Summer Camp in Madrid, Spain.
Pallavi is the Second Prize winner and Young Audience Award winner of the 69th Geneva International
Piano Competition, and of the VI International Prokofiev Competition in Saint Petersburg. She has won
the Steinway Advancement Prize in Germany and has received, on multiple occasions, the “Sobresaliente”
Award from the hands of Queen Sofía of Spain.
She has appeared in solo and orchestral concerts across five continents, performing at the Konzerthaus
in Berlin, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the Grand Hall
of the Dimitri Shostakovich Philharmonia in Saint Petersburg. Sir András Schiff selected her for his
concert series “Building Bridges,” a platform to support and promote young pianists.
Pallavi has performed at important festivals such as Marlboro Music and Verbier Festival. Pallavi’s musical projects have covered an extensive range, from standard Classical works to music of contemporary and living
composers, to fusion and crossover projects. She has collaborated with drummer Questlove of “The
Roots” and international singer/songwriter Keren Ann for a genre-defying concert, fusing the classical
world with hip hop, jazz, and folk-pop artists, at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
She gave performances of Steve Reich’s Double Sextet with the multi-Grammy-Award-winning ensemble,
“eighth blackbird.” She has premiered a large piano work, titled “Fantasia and Fugue in C,” by one of
India’s leading film composers, Vanraj Bhatia.
Pallavi Mahidhara gave her début performance at the Ruhr Piano Festival in 2021.
