Hailed as ‘one of the most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists’ (The Times), Mishka Rushdie Momen captivates audiences with her refined and expressive playing. Rushdie Momen’s wide-ranging repertoire focuses on Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, and extends earlier to Gibbons and Rameau. Committed to performing new music, she has commissioned works from Nico Muhly and Vijay Iyer, and premiered Héloïse Werner’s An inviting object at the Lucerne Summer Festival in 2022.

Highlights of recent and future seasons include concerto debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of St Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, a tour with the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, and a BBC Radio 3 broadcast with the Ulster Orchestra. She has played with other notable orchestras, including the CBSO, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Britten Sinfonia and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. In recital, Mishka has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Lucerne Festival, Zürich Tonhalle, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Antwerp deSingel, Piano Series, The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC), New York’s Frick Collection and 92nd Street Y, with the coming season including debuts at CENART in Mexico City and Princeton University.

Equally at home as a chamber musician, Rushdie Momen has worked with recital partners Steven Isserlis, Guy Johnston, Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Joshua Bell, Angela Hewitt, Timothy Ridout and Anthony Marwood. Festival engagements include those at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Rheingau Musik, Hindsgavl, Chipping Campden and Trasimeno, as well as regular appearances at the Casals Forum in Kronberg and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove.

Rushdie Momen was The Times arts critics’ chosen nominee in the field of classical music for their 2021 Breakthrough Award, part of the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Her debut recording for Hyperion—Reformation: Keyboard works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck—was issued in 2024 to wide critical acclaim, winning a Critics’ Circle Award. Mishka Rushdie Momen studied with Joan Havill and Imogen Cooper at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She also studied periodically with Richard Goode, and at thewe Kronberg Academy with Sir András Schiff, who has presented her in recital and orchestral engagements across the USA and Europe. Rushdie Momen’s studies at the Kronberg Academy were generously funded by the Henle Foundation.