Born in Birmingham, England in 1998 as a 3rd generation British-Indian of Punjabi-Sikh heritage, Dhiraj first picked up the guitar aged 11 at his local secondary school in Handsworth taking guitar lessons with Midlands-based jazz guitarist Paul Foad.

Piano lessons with Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez soon followed, alongside further music activity via the Birmingham Symphony Hall Jazzlines talent development programme and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire junior department.

Dhiraj soon moved down to London to continue his music studies on scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he completed his BMus Honours degree in 2025 having studied with some of Britain’s leading jazz musicians.

Since being based in the capital, Dhiraj has performed at venues including Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Vortex Jazz Club, Barbican Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Milton Court Concert Hall and UK festivals including EFG London Jazz, Cheltenham Jazz and We Out Here.