After a short period in London as a freelancer, Keval’s trajectory was irrevocably transformed when he was appointed to a teaching position at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki aged 25, making him the youngest professor in the institution’s history.

Keval’s career began to grow rapidly from his new base in Finland: performances in Europe’s most prominent concert halls and festivals, collaborations with renowned singers including Karita Mattila and Roderick Williams, invitations to teach at major European conservatoires and, with his regular duo partner Theodore Platt, success in one of the most significant Lied competitions in the world, organised by the Hugo Wolf Akademie in Stuttgart. These were all important milestones in a journey which, to this point, had been characterised by a determined and committed dedication to the tradition of the classical art-song.

Nevertheless, Keval’s early years in Finland would prove to be more than simply a professional springboard. Rather, they would come to symbolise distance: not only as a measure of how far he had come professionally, but also how far away he had moved from the music and culture of his home over a much longer period of time.

Coming to this understanding, and subsequently reconnecting with his Indian heritage, precipitated a fundamental and irreversible shift in Keval’s creative outlook, from which a renewed artistic vision has emerged. This is a vision characterised by cross-cultural musical dialogue, achieved as much through innovative curation as through the exploration and creation of music which itself transcends barriers of culture and genre, resisting neat categorisation, and which carries in it the blueprints of multiple peoples and places.

Today Keval is an artist who moves freely across the musical landscape, seeking out collaborators who share his values of curiosity, experimentation, and a desire to look beyond classifications of genre and style. Working regularly with singers including Fleur Barron, Anna El-Khashem, Aphrodite Patoulidou and Theodore Platt, Keval builds concerts which draw out new connections between classical song and music from other traditions, taking these programmes to leading festivals and concert halls across Europe. In 2024 he gave the European premiere of a song cycle by Shawn Okpebholo that blends gospel and jazz within a contemporary classical idiom, setting this alongside cycles by Schumann and Poulenc in a commentary on the vulnerability of children in conflict zones. In the same year, together with Jess Dandy, he created *Eternity in an Hour*, a project which brings together a newly commissioned cycle of Sanskrit songs by Reena Esmail setting portions of the *Bhagavad Gita* with songs from the western canon, in an exploration of the relationship between eastern and western philosophies. Praised by *The Times* as “profound in its spiritual depth and intellectual curiosity,” this project is typical of Keval’s curatorial approach.

In 2025 he collaborated again with Reena Esmail on his first solo piano show, devising an hour-long set of piano music which blends elements of Hindustani classical, Gujarati folk and Hindu devotional music with forms and textures from the western classical tradition. This solo project premiered at Flow Festival, as part of an eclectic line-up including Charli XCX, Hermeto Pascoal and Ganavya, a testament to the strength of Keval’s artistry in reaching broad and diverse audiences.

The creative freedom that Keval cultivates continues to shape his work in the classical scene too, where his expertise as a pianist is reflected not only in recent recordings with Theodore Platt for the Deutsche Grammophon label and an international schedule of concerts, but also in teaching engagements at institutions including the Juilliard School, New York and the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, as well as invitations to join competition juries including for the International Mirjam Helin Singing Competition, alongside artists including Dawn Upshaw and Soile Isokoski. Keval is on the artistic team of Helsinki Seriös, Finland’s foremost international chamber music series, and he is also a public speaker and broadcaster, hosting the interview series *Siba Talks*, radio programmes for the BBC, and featuring regularly in national and international newspapers and magazines. His life and career is the subject of a documentary film by Antti Vuori, set for release in 2026.