Jakub Kuszelki is a polish pianist, Prize winner of the 18th International Piano Competition Frederic Chopin in 2021.
On November 11, 2017, for the first time on the DAB Plus digital platform and on the Internet, the sounds of Fryderyk Chopin's music broadcast by Polish Radio Chopin were heard. Every year, on the eve of the November anniversary of this eighth public radio antenna, birthday concerts are organized. On November 10, 2021, at the Concert Studio of Witold Lutosławski, Jakub Kuszelik, winner of the fourth prize and the Polish Radio Special Prize for the best performance of mazurkas, in the Chopin Competition that ended only three weeks earlier, performed in the next anniversary concert. Extensive fragments of the recording of this November concert fill the currently presented debut solo album of Jakub Kuszlik. Before this just 25-year-old, talented pianist, a graduate of the Academy of Music. Feliks Nowowiejski in Bydgoszcz, in the class of prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, the doors of many concert halls, not only in Poland, are just opening. The concert's repertoire included compositions by Fryderyk Chopin, including, of course, a series of awarded mazurkas. However, the program was extended to include compositions by Johannes Brahms. Their inclusion in the recital program is only at first glance not obvious in the context of Chopin's oeuvre. © Polskie Radio