The first Steinway Artist of Indian origin, Karl Lutchmayer is equally renowned as a concert pianist, a lecturer, and a broadcaster, performing across the globe and having worked with conductors including Lorin Maazel and Sir Andrew Davis. He studied the piano at the Royal College of Music where he was awarded the John Hopkinson Medal by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and to which he subsequently returned as a Constant and Kit Lambert Fellow. He has broadcast on BBC Television and Radio, All India Radio, and Classic FM. Particularly acclaimed for his lecture recitals, he has over the last twenty-five years given a landmark London series, Conversational Concerts™, which has included festivals to celebrate the Liszt (2011) and Alkan (2013) bicentenaries and the music of Enescu. He has also given more than ninety world premières, many works having been written especially for him. He is widely regarded as a leading authority on the music of Busoni, which has been central to his career as both an academic and a performer for over thirty years. Recently, this culminated in the curatorship of a three-day Busoni festival in London, in which he gave solo and chamber recitals, including a world première, and performances of both the famous Piano Concerto in C major and the much less well-known early Concerto for Piano and String Quartet (1878), for which he received extensive critical acclaim. He has also undertaken musicological research at the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge. For the last decade Karl Lutchmayer 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 educational 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.