Rythem B.

Rythem Bansal is a professional pianist, composer and educator based in New Delhi, India. He has been a recipient of merit-based scholarships from prestigious Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) for the Five-Week Summer Program; Delhi School of Music, Global Music Institute and Korean Cultural Centre. Although started with self- teaching, he later studied piano from John Raphael and completed Grade 8 in Piano with merit. Drawn to jazz and improvisational music, he also took lessons from Utsav Lal and Jacob Damelin (Canada). He has won numerous music competitions during his time in high school.
Apart from the solo performances and session work, he is currently working with Delhi based band The Revisit Project. He has performed with renowned International artists such as George Brooks (USA), Rainer Pusch (Germany), Matteo Fraboni (Italy), James Morton (UK), Quentin Moore (USA), David Soin Tapesser (UK), Yair Amster to name a few and phenomenal Indian musicians like Pranai Gurung, Vasundhara Vee, Sentirenla Lucia, Shubh Saran, Sanjay Divecha, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Kartikeya Srivastava and Aditya Balani and he keeps playing with numerous musicians and bands in the city which has gained him the reputation of being the most in-demand jazz pianist in New Delhi. He worked with The Piano Man Jazz Club as the house pianist for 3 years, where he could be seen performing with his trio and hosting the jam session every week.
He has performed at prestigious music festivals such as Goa International Jazz Festival, MTV India Music Summit Festival (1st Edition), Jaipur Jazz & Blues Festival, Pune International Jazz Utsav, Delhi International Jazz Festival and Giants of Jazz Festival. He has also performed in various corporate firms & events like Google, India Design ID (2018 & 2019); venues like NCPA (Tata Theatre), St. Regis Mumbai, Fairmont, Alila Fort Palace, Neemrana Fort Palace, India International Centre, JW Marriott, ITC Maurya, Leela Palace, etc and clubs like The Piano Man (NCR), B Flat (Bangalore), The Quarter (Mumbai), Soho House (Mumbai), Home (PVR).
He finds himself drawn to jazz music due to its emphasis on improvisation, which he believes allows musicians to be more creative and expressive. It's his belief that playing jazz is important to musicians of any genre, as it opens up their aural abilities and encourages them to develop musical maturity.
He is a former piano faculty at Blue Notes School of Music, One World College of Music, Performers Collective (formerly Gurgaon School of Music) and is currently teaching privately at his residence.