Lochan Rijal is an ethnomusicologist, a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter. He has won several national awards for his albums and an international award for his performance. His music blends various musical genres to poetic form that create multi-layered allusions and symbolic parallels drawn from everyday life. He composes his music on sarangi, arbaja and guitar.
He travelled across Nepal working with various ethnic musicians especially the Gandharvas. Apart from being a professional musician and a music educator he is also involved in Nepali Movie as a music director.