Zubin Kanga

Zubin Kanga (born 1982) is an Australian-born pianist, composer, and musicologist based in London. He specialises in contemporary and experimental music. Early life and education The son of Rustom Kanga and Marlene Kanga who are both engineers, Kanga was born in Sydney and attended Sydney Grammar School until 2000. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 2006 before moving to London in 2007, where he is still resident. Kanga studied under Rolf Hind and attended the Royal Academy of Music, receiving an MMus in 2009 and a PhD in 2014. Career Kanga has been an active chamber musician since joining Australian contemporary music group Ensemble Offspring in 2005 at the age of 22, of which he remains a member. He played with the Marsyas Trio between 2017 and 2018, during which time they recorded In the Theatre of Air, an album of music by women composers for piano, flute, and cello. It reached #7 in the Specialist Classical Charts and was named on Sequenza21’s “Best Chamber Music CDs of 2018”. Notable solo performances of Kanga’s include Beat Furrer’s concerto for two pianos Nuun with Rolf Hind and the London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in January 2011 and Thomas Adès’s