Jozef Kapustka

Recently coming to the large public attention with his "fantastic display of a virtuoso technique that few in the world could attempt to match" (Piano World Forum), Jozef Kapustka was born in Poland in 1969 and began his musical studies at the age of 3. Meeting Sviatoslav Richter shortly thereafter has set his vocation eversince. Upon graduating from the New York Juilliard School in 1992 with a straight A record (piano with Jerome Lowenthal) he has completed a Postgraduate Advanced Studies diploma specialising in piano performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London (piano with Martin Roscoe, musicology with Amanda Glauert), having worked subsequently with Dmitri Baskirov in Madrid and Vera Gornostaeva in Moscow . He eventually settled down to live in Paris. Very early Kapustka started to appear in some of the world class premises such as New York Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum, United Nations, Carnegie Recital Hall ("magical,amazing experience" as seen in "The New York Times"),United Nations on invitation from the Russian Federation permanent mission and has been featured on Voice of America International and New York classical radio WQXR live radio broadcasts ( "one of the most interesting radio programmings on the air"-New York Village Voice). Furthermore he has been featured on France Musique Classique and Europe1 broadcasts. A winner of 1991 New York Artists International
photo: Anton Rosenfeld (UK) Competition he has performed in almost every European country . including the Russian Federation ; United States,South America and the near East. Seen in the press: ("what a talent! a true juke-box! ask the piece,he plays it"- Depeche du midi, "close to delirious" - Figaro, "great pianist keen on introspection, obsessed technician" - B.Hauptmann in Nurnberger Zeitung, " a particularly beautiful concert" - Christine Berbudeau for Radio France International ), "...a high voltage stuntman,inspired and talentuous" ,"highly entertaining playing" 20 minutes Europe,"..magnificent, extraordinary talent"- Virginie Lemoine with Olivier Bellamy on France's Musique Classique radio.
A highly respected American critic and writer, David Dubal ("Remembering Horowitz") has once called Kapustka a " great pianist who loves his art", leading American authority on Liszt playing Jerome Lowenthal "an excellent and very interesting artist" , Josef Raieff ( last pupil of Alexander Siloti who on his turn was Liszt student) " a man with million dollar hands", pianists Gyorgy Sandor and Oxana Yablonskaya respectively " true musical talent of an extraordinary potential " and " a very exciting and fully committed individual" . Valentine Smith of The Stratford Herald has hailed his "masterful rendering [of the Liszt piano concerto No.2 with the Leamington Sinfonia conducted by Jenny Barrie]" and his all-Chopin recital for the 2010 Chopin Year celebrations in France was a "cultural event of the year" : " a man, his piano and the magic begins" (Ouest-France) . Nominated for the most prestigious French theater award Molière 2010 of the best musical play ("Diva of Sarcelles" written and directed by Virginie Lemoine, with Brigitte Faure, Marie Chevalot, Smail Mekki).
In 2010 Jozef Kapustka has released critically acclaimed "P.I.Tchaikovski : Romances" with soprano Irina Tiviane (...exquisite piano playing , recommended by Chronique Musicale, France) and "Jozef Kapustka and the Orquestra de Cordas da Grota conducted by Ubiratan Rodrigues play Bach live in Rio de Janeiro" (Otherwise Records, London)
Passionnate traveller he has played in such far away places like Tahiti, Hawaii, Spitsbergen, ancient Roman theaters in Col. Qaddafi's Libya...