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Winner of the world-acclaimed 2007 International Markneukirchen Instrumental Competition, Sarah Kapustin's musical activities have taken her across North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
Violin: Sarah Kapustin
Winner of the world-acclaimed 2007 International Markneukirchen Instrumental Competition, Sarah Kapustin's musical activities have taken her across North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Her performances have been broadcasted throughout Germany. She plays regularly with the Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (The Netherlands), the Vogtland Philharmonie (Germany), and is first violinist of the Rubens Quartet and concertmaster of Sinfonia Rotterdam. She has appeared in prestigious concert venues such as Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Besides being a soloist, Ms Kapustin is also an avid chamber musician. Major festivals that she has appeared include world-renowned Sarasota and Marlboro festivals. She has performed with such distinguished artists as Claude Frank and Joseph Silverstein. Ms Kapustin shows great interest in contemporary music, and has worked with internationally-famous composers such as Henri Dutilleux, Kryzstof Penderecki and Ned Rorem.
Ms Kapustin received a Masters degree in violin performance at The Juilliard School with Robert Mann; and a Bachelor of Music and an Artist Diploma from Indiana University as a pupil of Mauricio Fuks. As a Fulbright Scholarship recipient, she studied chamber music with Michel Strauss and Vladimir Mendelssohn at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique.
Ms Kapustin has been professor of violin and chamber music at the ArtEZ Conservatorium in Zwolle, the Netherlands since 2011 and joined the chamber music faculty at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen in 2014. She has given masterclasses in the US, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Brazil, Columbia and Hong Kong. She plays on the ”Nico Richter and Hetta Rester” G.B. Rogeri, Brescia, ca. 1690, on loan to her from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumentenfonds in Amsterdam.