About
Kevin is a versatile and engaging pianist, who specialises in performing Classical repertoire, pop, R&B and Salsa.
Kevin’s performance highlights include, playing with the Inner Vision Orchestra at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Royal Opera House in Mumbai, performing Beethoven’s fifth symphony with the Para Orchestra (conducted by Charles Hazlewood) and soloist at London’s Wigmore hall, as one of the winners of the Jaques Samuel’s Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition.
Satizabal’s compositions have been performed by performers and ensembles including: soprano Jane Manning, the Chroma ensemble, , Juice and BCMG.
Kevin Satizabal graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012, studying composition with Richard Causton, Joe Cutler, Lamberto Coccioli, Michael Walters, 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.
Alongside studying composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, Satizabal 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 Satizabal has since played as soloist and accompanist with singers, instrumentalists and ensembles throughout the UK and India. Satizabal is also available to book as a soloist for weddings, and private and corporate functions.