Jarosław Kapuściński
Polish composer and pianist (born 1964) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jarosław Kapuściński (Polish: [jaˈrɔswaf kapuɕˈtɕij̃skʲi]; born December 12, 1964, in Warsaw, Poland) is a composer and pianist specializing in intermedia. He is associate professor of composition at Stanford University,[1] regularly teaching at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).[2] In 2016-2022, Jarosław Kapuściński was the Chair of the Department of Music at Stanford.[3]
Kapuściński trained as a classical pianist and composer at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music) and first engaged in video art and animation during a residency at the Banff Centre in Canada (1988–89). He developed that area of work during doctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego (1992-1997) and as a postdoctoral student at McGill University in Montreal (2001).[4]
In addition to his work at Stanford, Kapuściński has taught at McGill University (2001)[5] and the University of the Pacific (United States) (2004-2008). He has lectured internationally on intermedia composition and performance, at IRCAM in Paris,[6] the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology at McGill University, at the University of Oxford,[7] Tokyo University of the Arts, and at Columbia University, among others. He co-authored with Takanori Fujita and François Rose a website about Japanese Noh Theater as intermedia.[8] With François Rose, he co-authored also a multi-lingual website about orchestration in the Japanese traditional court music, gagaku.[9]