Michał Kapczuk - NOSPR

A double bassist and bass guitarist, he graduated from the Jazz Department of the State Music School Complex on Bednarska Street in Warsaw, where he studied under Zbigniew Wegehaupt, and from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he studied under Professor Jacek Niedziela-Meira. He is a co-founder and member of numerous musical projects spanning a wide range of styles. As an ensemble member, he has won the Grand Prix at major competitions in Poland and abroad more than a dozen times. As a soloist, he was awarded joint first prize in the Jazz Personality Competition at the 2013 Jazz nad Odrą Festival, as well as distinctions at the Gnesin Jazz Festival in Moscow (2012), the Krokus Jazz Festival in Jelenia Góra (2009) and the Tarnów Jazz Contest (2008). In 2012, his own ensemble, the Michał Kapczuk Trio, won the Grand Prix at the 11th International Krokus Jazz Festival. He was also awarded a ‘Young Poland 2012’ scholarship by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.