Mahan Esfahani is quickly gaining international attention as one of the most exciting early keyboard specialists around. Currently on the roster of BBC New Generation Artists, highlights of this season include performances and recordings of three modern harpsichord concerti with BBC orchestras across the United Kingdom, a solo recital at the Wigmore Hall, and appearances at the 2010 City of London and York Early Music Festivals. He has also been asked to perform the inaugural recital at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. on the 1912 Pleyel & Cie. harpsichord belonging to Wanda Landowska. Mahan Esfahani has performed with Il Complesso Barocco, English Concert, Seattle Baroque Orchestra and the King's Noyse. His series and festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Goettingen Handel Festival, Halle Handel Festival, Settimana Mozart of Milan, Festwoche Herrenhausen of Hannover, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Early Music Society. Future recordings include the continuation of a project for the Musica Omnia label featuring the works for harpsichord and organ of the Elizabethan 'Liszt of the Virginalists', John Bull. He has also recorded as organist with Ensemble Plus Ultra for Deutsche Gramophon/Archiv. Mahan Esfahani studied as a President's Scholar at Stanford University, where his principal mentor was the musicologist George Houle; he went on to pursue his performance studies under the supervision of the Australian harpsichordist Peter Watchorn (Boston) and the Italian organist Lorenzo Ghielmi (Milan) before settling in the United Kingdom as Artist-in-Residence at New College, Oxford. He received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2009.

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