Ashok Gupta
Pianist and continuo player
The British pianist and continuo player Ashok Gupta has performed on the fortepiano, organ, harpsichord and modern piano with many international orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the BBC Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
In the 2024/25 season he returns with the Mozarteum Orchestra under Ivor Bolton to the Salzburg Festival, where he made his debut in 2012 as the organist in Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots.
He has appeared at renowned concert halls such as the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn and the Mozarteum Foundation, and at festivals including Glyndebourne Festival, the Oxford International Song Festival, the Leeds Lieder Festival and the Cheltenham Festival.
On the opera stage, the concert platform and in the recording studio he has worked with artists including Lorenza Borrani, Sarah-Jane Brandon, Luise Buchberger, Jâms Coleman, Sarah Connolly, Alessandro Fisher, Michael Gurevich, Louise Kemény, Ann Murray, Daniel Pailthorpe and Olivier Stankiewicz.
He has worked as an assistant at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Garsington Opera, Opera North and the London Handel Festival, and with students on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He has also taught young artists at Garsington, Glyndebourne and the Royal Academy of Music.
He is also active as an arranger. His arrangements for Jasdeep Degun and Cameron Shabazi were recorded for OperaVision and Deutsche Grammophon. Ashok Gupta studied at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and undertook additional conducting training with Sian Edwards, Toby Purser, Peter Davies and Daniel Hogan.
He was a prize-winner at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards in 2016, the International Telekom Beethoven Competition in 2017 and the Royal Overseas League Competition in 2018.