Jozef Kapustka
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Jozef Kapustka is a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 concert pianist, born in 1969 in Tarnów, Poland. Lives in Paris, France.

Biography and schooling

Jozef Kapustka was born in 1969 in Tarnów
Tarnów
Tarnów is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants as of June 2009. The city has been situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999, but from 1975 to 1998 it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east-west connection...

, Poland where he began receiving his early musical tuition from the local instructor Danuta Cieslik at the age of 3. He then briefly studied at the State Higher Academy of Music in Kraków with Ewa Bukojemska. Having graduated from The Juilliard School in New York ( Bachelor's of Music degree 1992; piano with Josef Raieff, then Jerome Lowenthal and chamber music with Joseph Fuchs), he moved on to be granted a Postgraduate Advanced Studies Diploma specializing in piano performance from the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 in London (1997, piano with Martin Roscoe and musicology with Amanda Glauert). He also worked with Dimitri Bashkirov (masterclasses held under auspices of the Queen Sofía College of Music in Spain) and Vera Gornostaeva in Paris and Moscow. Alumnus of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara,1991
Santa Barbara, California
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,CA he holds a " diplome superieur de la langue et civilization francaise" from Paris Sorbonne University(1994).In 1994 he received a Grand Prix of the Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris. Nominated for the French theater award Molière 2010 ( Best musical play :"Diva à Sarcelles" written and directed by Virginie Lemoine).

Performances

Jozef Kapustka has performed in nearly every European country including Russia (2008 Europe's Day recital at Le Havre, France; recitals for the 2010 Chopin Year celebrations in France, 2011 Liszt Bicentenary concerts in Great Britain); U.S.A - Lincoln Center appearances 1989-1992, Juilliard IBM concert series, Kosciuszko Foundation-Hunter College Music series broadcasted live on WQXR New York classical radio, Carnegie Recital Hall 1997, United Nations on invitation from Russian Permanent Mission 2004; also chamber player, coach and adviser to various theatrical productions (Avinion Festival 2004,France).
In 2010 he initiated a "Bach in Rio" project playing and recording selected Bach keyboard concerti with the Orquestra de Cordas da Grota (cond. Ubiratã Rodrigues) in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.

Internet sources


External links

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