Marisa Gupta

Born of Thai and Indian parentage, Marisa Gupta made her debut performing Prokofiev’s 1st Piano Concerto with the Houston Symphony. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including top prizes at the Concours Maria Canals (Barcelona), the Viotti Competition (Vercelli), Corpus Christi and Kingsville Competitions, a Solti Foundation Award, a Fulbright scholarship , and many others. She was an Edison Visiting Fellow at the British Library (studying early chamber music recordings) and was a finalist for the BBC ‘s New Generations Thinkers Scheme, an initiative inviting leading British minds to broadcast on Radio 3.

She has appeared in prominent venues around the world: The Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Palau de la Música,  South Bank Centre, Kings Place , The Bridgewater Hall,  LSO St. Luke’s, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Ateneul Român, Zipper Hall, LACMA, Tokyo Opera City, and venues throughout Europe, Japan, and the USA. Her performances have been heard on BBC Radio and TV, Radio 4 (Netherlands), Ràdio Catalunya, KUSC and KUHF . Festival appearanaces include Rockport, Ravinia, Three Choirs Festival, Prussia Cove, Yellow Barn, and others. Marisa has worked with notable composers including Jörg Widmann, Brett Dean, Philippe Hersant, and David Matthews, and has given the US and UK premieres of works by Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, European premieres of works by Aaron Jay Kernis and Ned Rorem at the Wigmore Hall, and the world premiere of Rhapsodie by Philippe Hersant. Chamber music partners include Anthony Marwood, Philippe Graffin, Stephen Kovacevich, Nicolas Dautricourt, Tom Meglioranza, Geneva Lewis, Movses Pogossian, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Philharmonia, Hallé, the Verona, Calder, and Doric Quartets, Nash Ensemble and others.

Marisa received the Diplôme de Soliste from the HEM Genève and a doctorate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Mentors include John and Nancy Weems, Horacio Gutierrez, Pascal Devoyon, and Richard Goode.