About Piano Cleveland

Jakub Kuszlik

February 05th 2024

Jakub Kuszlik is a Polish classical pianist. In 2015-2021 he was a student in the class of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music (Bydgoszcz, Poland). He has also participated in masterclasses held by renowned pedagogues such as Arie Vardi, Kevin Kenner, Dang Thai Son, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Tamás Ungár, and Anna Malikova.

In 2021 he was awarded Fourth Prize and Best Mazurka Prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw, Poland). He is also a laureate of the Top of the World International Piano Competition (Third Prize, Tromsø, Norway, 2019), the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (Second Prize, 2019), and the Paderewski International Piano Competition (Second Prize, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2016).

He performs extensively in Poland as well as abroad—most recently in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, United States, Canada, Japan, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Lithuania, Estonia, Brazil, Chile, Armenia, and Kosovo.

His orchestra collaborations include Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice, Poland), Clara Schumann Philharmoniker (Zwickau-Plauen, Germany), Poznań Symphonic Orchestra, Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra.


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