Cheslav Singh
Cheslav Singh is a Canadian pianist based in London with international performance and pedagogical experience.
He has performed internationally at renowned venues (Rome, London, New York, Naples, Paris, Toronto), on radio (RAI 3) and television in many different contexts, playing everything from Beethoven to free jazz. He has been recognized as being able to ‘construct solid geometric sonorities, very well planned…’ and his playing is said to be ‘…engaging and meditative…’ (Massimiliano Cerito, June 2022). Since 2011, he has been actively involved in contemporary classical music, having co- founded the audiovisual group a=b=x=y. H
e has appeared as a composer, composing for solo instruments to a full symphony orchestra. He is also the co-founder of Our ‘PL’ace Foundation, through which, among other activities, he co-curates an annual International Audiovisual Art Festival in Poznań, Poland since 2015. LightSounds in 2024 will take place across four countries, in the UK, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.
He remains active in searching for extended playing techniques on the border between acoustic and electronic music, plays the organ, has a keen interest in tuning systems and is an active student of Gurbāṇī Saṅgīta, having had the immense fortune of being able to work with and for its foremost exponent Bhai Baldeep Singh since 2013.
