| Sunday 28 September 2025 | 16:30 |
| Jakub Kuszlik | Piano |
Jakub Kuszlik won the 4th Prize and The Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of mazurkas at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He won second prize in the 10th Ignacy J. Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (2016), was a semi-finalist of the Beethoven Competition in Bonn (2017). In March 2019 he won second prize in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in USA and in June 2019 third prize in the Top of the World International Piano Competition in Tromsø in Norway. Jakub Kuszlik is also a finalist and winner of the Young Jury Prize of the Concours Musical International de Montréal 2024.
He has played concerts in Poland and abroad, including in the United States, Japan, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, Greece, Norway, Armenia, Iceland, France, Switzerland, The UAE, Canada, Lithuania, Kosovo, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
He has performed with leading Polish orchestras, including the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Philharmonische Orchester Plauen-Zwickau and conductors: Andrzej Boreyko, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Paweł Przytocki, Tadeusz Strugała, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, Xian Zhang, Leo Siberski.
He has performed at festivals including Chopin and his Europe, International Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles, Semanas Musicales de Frutillar, Chopin Piano Fest Prishtina.
In February 2022 his first solo album “Brahms, Chopin” was released by Polish Radio, including recordings from his recital in the Concert Studio of the Polish Radio.
In December 2022, the artist released his second album “Chopin & Debussy”.
Jakub Kuszlik’s recital is supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute of Warsaw, the Ministry of Culture & National Heritage of Poland, and the Polish Cultural Institute. It is part of the UK/Poland Season 2025. We are also grateful to sponsorship from the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation for this concert.
Our piano is a fine 2015 Hamburg Steinway Model B Grand, chosen for us by Steinway’s Head of Concert & Artist Services, Ulrich Gerhartz. It is maintained by Steinways who tune it immediately before each recital.
After the concert we offer a traditional English tea of freshly-made sandwiches with savouries, cakes and chocolate biscuits accompanied by a choice of a glass of wine, or unlimited tea, coffee or juice. Tea tickets are £10 (standard), £5 (students & schoolchildren). They are sold on the door for cash only. We can cater for up 70.
