Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin was a Soviet composer and pianist of Russian-Jewish descent.
11 Facts About Nikolai Kapustin
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Nikolai Kapustin played with early Soviet jazz bands such as the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra.
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Nikolai Kapustin composed his first piano sonata at age 13.
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From age 14, Kapustin studied piano with Avrelian Rubakh.
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Nikolai Kapustin studied from 1956 with Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1961.
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Nikolai Kapustin included Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 in his graduation recital.
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Nikolai Kapustin had his own quintet, which performed at an "upscale restaurant" monthly.
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Nikolai Kapustin played as a member of Yury Saulsky's big band and later in the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra.
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Nikolai Kapustin's music has been played by leading pianists including Ludmil Angelov, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Frank Dupree, Masahiro Kawakami, Thomas Ang, Nikolai Petrov, Steven Osborne, Yeol Eum Son and Vadim Rudenko, and by cellists such as Enrico Dindo and Eckart Runge.
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Nikolai Kapustin had two sons, one of whom is Anton Nikolai Kapustin, a theoretical physicist.
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Nikolai Kapustin died on July 2,2020, in Moscow from COVID-19.