Kevin Satizabal
Piano, recorder and composer
Kevin Satizabal graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012, having studied composition with Richard Causton, Joe Cutler, Lamberto Coccioli and Edwin Roxburgh. Kevin was born in Popayan Colombia in 1990, and began his formal music education at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. He studied piano with Denise Patton, recorder with Sarah Humphreys, and composition with Avril Anderson.
During his time at the Royal College Kevin won various competitions including the West London pianoforte festival and the Ealing festival, was a finalist at the Royal College Teresa Carreno competition, and performed at London’s Wigmore hall as one of the winners of the Jaques Samuel’s Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition in 2007.
Alongside studying composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, Kevin also took up piano lessons under the tutorage of Jonathan French, culminating in a performance of the second piano concerto by Shostakovich in 2012.
Kevin has recently played as soloist and accompanist with singers and other instrumentalists in recitals throughout London, Northampton and Birmingham.
Baluji Shrivastav OBE
“For Inner Vision I don’t want it to just be a collaboration between UK and India, more like UK / Bosnia, UK / Iran. Make it universal. That way we can have more musical traditions!”