Jakub Kuszlik - NOSPR

Award winner - 4th Prize and The Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of mazurkas - of the 18th International Chopin 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 .

He has played concerts in Poland and abroad, including in the United States, Japan, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, Greece, Norway, Armenia, Iceland, France, Lithuania, Brazil and Chile. In November 2018 the pianist performed with great success at the Lincoln Center in New York.

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 a review of the Chopin Competition, Jed Distler in The Gramophone wrote: I’ve tended to focus on pianists whose particular character traits, talents and quirks (or lack thereof) readily manifest themselves. Consequently, several ‘dark horses’ have nearly escaped my attention, such as Jakub Kuszlik. I rewatched Kuszlik’s second-stage performance and quickly realised just how seriously I had underestimated him. [….] Indeed, Kuszlik is so musical that you only notice his remarkable virtuosity after the fact. He was born to play Chopin.