Pianist AMIR SIRAJ is a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and an alum of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation Young Scholars Program. Siraj has been featured as a guest soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the New England Philharmonic, the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, and the Metrowest Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has performed at venues including Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the New World Center in Miami, Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall in Boston, and Wigmore Hall in London.

Siraj has played for luminaries such as Moon Jae-in, Justin Trudeau, and Queen Rania of Jordan, and has appeared at the GRAMMY Salute To Classical Music, JBLFest in Las Vegas, Atlantic Council Awards, American Liszt Society, Max Reger Foundation of America, and Bowdoin International Music Festival. He received the Grand Prize at the Fidelity Investments Young Artist Competition, First Prize at the Harvard Musical Association, and Second Prize at the Kaufman International Youth Piano Competition. He has recorded with Lang Lang on Deutsche Grammophon. Siraj has also been honored as a guest of NPR’s “From The Top” at Jordan Hall and selected as a winner of the National YoungArts Competition. He is pursuing a Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Wha Kyung Byun.

Siraj believes in the power of music and channeling it for healing and social change. He has performed in and directed numerous arts collaborations, benefit concerts, and outreach programs, including for the National Parks Foundation, Leeds International Piano Competition, Music For Food, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and From The Top, as well as schools and senior living centers in the U.S. and the U.K. Recently, he founded Music For The Parks, an initiative to advocate for the preservation of the National Parks.

Siraj concurrently studies astrophysics (A.M./A.B. candidate) at Harvard University and is the youngest scientist on this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list. He serves as Assistant Music Director of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest theater group in the United States, and is a member of the Harvard Krokodiloes, Harvard University's oldest a cappella singing group.