Naina at the piano beneath a large framed portrait in a wood-panelled room, black and white

Naina Bachchan

Naina Bachchan is a pianist based in Mumbai. She is a Grade 8 level pianist with the ABRSM (the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music), a premier UK‑based music examination board.

After a classical training shaped by Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Debussy, she returned to the piano as an adult — rediscovering it during the pandemic through lessons with Alberto L. Ferro, Creative Director of the London Contemporary School of Piano. What began as a wish to explore jazz and harmony grew, over five years, into a voice of her own.

Today her playing gravitates towards film scores and contemporary composers — the music that had quietly shaped her imagination for decades. That journey is gathered in her project Meet Me in the Music: a sixty-minute programme of ten pieces by composers from around the world, recorded at Island City Studios in Mumbai. Her path continues through Latin, jazz and improvisation — towards a sound that brings the modern and the classical together.

Listen to the recordings

Naina on stage with jazz legend Chick Corea at the piano
On stage with jazz legend Chick Corea, 2018.