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The Čápová Sisters

Sisters Rebecca and Kirsten first appeared together at the Festival of Music at St. Barrahane’s Church in Castletownsend, and , since then, have appeared at several venues, including The West Cork Chamber Music Festival and The Carducci Festival at CIT School of Music Curtis Auditorium.

“sharply-pointed account of Poulenc’s Sonata..unfailing delights of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances”

Michael Dervan, The Irish Times, 18 September 2007

“There was no late afternoon concert, so I took myself off to the Parish Hall for the recital featuring two sisters at one piano, another of my favourite musical things. Rebecca and Kirsten Čápová produced shimmering and lustrous tones for Debussy's Petite Suite, and Schubert's Fantasie in F minor, before presenting an exuberant rendition of four Slavonic Dances Op 46 of Dvorák -- the numbers 1, 2, 7 and 8. Having misplaced my notes, I can't identify the encore, but it was as charming as the rest of the program”

Kelly Ferjutz, Ensemble, July 2007



Kirsten Čápová

Kirsten, 21, has just begun the first of a five-year Bachelor of Music course in Piano Performance with Prof. Elena Lapitzkaja at the Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin, Germany, after having spent over a year at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, with Prof. Barry Snyder, where she was the recipient of both the Howard Hanson and McLaughlin scholarships.

From 2002-2003, her transition year in school, she was accepted for a period of study with Prof. Arbo Valdma, piano, and Prof. Maria Kliegel, cello, at the Hochschule fuer Musik, Cologne. From 1992-2005, Kirsten was a pupil of the Cork School of Music, studying piano with Mary Beattie and cello with Gerry Kelly. She also regularly travelled to Dublin for lessons with Mabel Swainson at the Leinster School of Music between 2001-2005.

In November, 2003, she was awarded the Audience Prize at the prestigious International Heinrich Neuhaus Piano Fesitval in Moscow. In April, 2002, she was the winner of the Robert Gourley Award at the 10th Classical Music Bursaries in Belfast. At Feis Ceoil, Dublin, Kirsten was the winner of many competitions, including the Morris Grant Bursary and the Mabel Swainson Award.

Kirsten gave her debut John Field Room solo recital at the National Concert Hall in October, 2004. Other concert performances include those at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry, a recital with cellist, Matthew Huber, in London, the lunchtime recital series at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, the Boyle Arts Festival and Boyle Arts Week and the Siemens Feis Ceoil Young Platform series at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

Kirsten has taken part in masterclasses with Philip Martin, Hugh Tinney, Ewa Poblocka, Alicja Fiederkewicz, Tatiana Zelikman, Fanny Waterman, Marcel Baudet, Pascal Roge, Barry Douglas, Jiri Hlinka, and John Perry.