Dr. Anthony Capparelli is a pianist and piano teacher originally from Wisconsin, USA. He lives in Gent, Belgium, and is a member of the piano faculty of Kunstacademie Deinze (KADE). He holds a Masters of Arts in piano performance and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in performance and pedagogy from the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Dr. Ksenia Nosikova. In 2023, he received a Postgraduate Soloist Diploma from KASK/Conservatorium where he studied with Daan Vandewalle. His research for his doctoral dissertation centered on traditional Irish storytelling and the piano works of composer Philip Hammond.
Anthony has had an extensive background in pedagogy. In 2020, he was an instructor of music at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. Previously, he was a teaching assistant for four years at the University of Iowa. His previous principal teachers include Jane Coop and Marc Durand at the Centre d’Arts Orford in Quebec, Canada, and Dr. Catherine Kautsky at Lawrence University. As a child, he studied with Dr. Paul Wirth of the Wirth Center for the Performing Arts, a specialist in training young artist pianists, with whom he toured the Midwestern region of the USA presenting on piano technique. He has participated as a soloist in masterclasses with Gabriel Kwok, Laura Melton, Robert McDonald, Yefim Bronfman, Tamás Ungár, and Frank Levy.
An active collaborative pianist, Anthony has enjoyed an eclectic career both in instrumental chamber music and working with vocalists. As a chamber musician, he has toured across the Midwestern area of the USA and also in Ireland and the UK. Anthony has had coachings and performed in masterclass with prominent ensembles such as the Elias String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, the JACK quartet, and with pianists Orion Weiss and Emanuel Ax. In his work with vocalists, Anthony was on staff at Lawrence University as a staff pianist for the voice studio of John T. Gates in 2016. He has performed in masterclass for Dietrich Henschel, Dale Duesing, Lawrence Brownlee, Eric Owens, Charlotte Margiono, Martin Wölfel, and with members of the Lorelei Ensemble. He has a deep love for the operatic and art song repertoire and has trained for a year at the International Opera Academy (BE) in 2021/22 as a pianist-repetiteur where he worked on multiple productions.
As a soloist, Anthony has performed in six countries, and in concert with the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra, the St. Croix Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra. He has begun working extensively on modern piano repertoire, particularly works by composers from the USA and Ireland.
