NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN

Nikolai Kapustin was born in Gorlovka (Ukraine) in 1937. Kapustin is a member of the old USSR Composer's Union since 1980. Graduated from the class of Prof. A. Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1961. During the late 1950's he made himself an excellent reputation as a jazz pianist, arranger and composer and made numerous appearances with his own quintet as well as with the Yuri Saulsky's Central Artists' Club Big Band in Moscow. During 1961-72 he toured throughout the Soviet Union and aboard with the Oleg Lundstrem's Jazz Orchestra. His compositional style is a blend of West European classical and post classical art music with the modern idioms of jazz and rock. He has in his earlier days been predominantly interested in the gendre of the instrumental concerto - amongst his compositions are three concertos for piano & orchestra (1961, 1974, 1985), a two-movement concerto for orchestra (1980), a read more...