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Musicians Emergency Fund to Present Brilliant Young Pianist Adam Golka in Recital at Alice Tully Hall
At twenty-seven, Adam Golka has distinguished himself in solo and ensemble, plus guest appearances with orchestra, in U.S. cities and abroad.
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Golka moved to Fort Worth at fifteen to study with José Feghali at Texas Christian University. In 2012, he received an Artist’s Diploma from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, studying with Leon Fleisher. He has continued his work in master classes with András Schiff, Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida.
Among Adam Golka’s honors are first prize in the second China Shanghai International Piano Competition in 2003, the Gilmore Young Artist Award in 2008, and the Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association in 2009. He has premiered works written for him by Richard Danielpour and Michael Brown.
In 2010, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto. Recitals during the 2012-13 season followed in New York, Ohio, Boston, Florida and Wroclaw, Poland, plus participation as guest artist with the Szymanowski Quartet at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Adam Golka, who spends summers with Marlboro Music, kicked off his 2013-14 season with a recital at the Ravinia Festival and solo and chamber performances at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. His 2014-15 engagements include weeks with the Vancouver, San Diego, Brevard (FL), California and Richmond Symphonies, plus a Cliburn Festival residency.
Internationally, he has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Sinfonia Varsovia, Shanghai Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Orquestra Filarmonica de Jalisco, and has played recitals in Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and at Chopin Festivals variously held in Poland, at Wroclaw and Duzniki-Zdrój.
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Golka moved to Fort Worth at fifteen to study with José Feghali at Texas Christian University. In 2012, he received an Artist’s Diploma from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, studying with Leon Fleisher. He has continued his work in master classes with András Schiff, Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida.
Among Adam Golka’s honors are first prize in the second China Shanghai International Piano Competition in 2003, the Gilmore Young Artist Award in 2008, and the Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association in 2009. He has premiered works written for him by Richard Danielpour and Michael Brown.
In 2010, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto. Recitals during the 2012-13 season followed in New York, Ohio, Boston, Florida and Wroclaw, Poland, plus participation as guest artist with the Szymanowski Quartet at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Adam Golka, who spends summers with Marlboro Music, kicked off his 2013-14 season with a recital at the Ravinia Festival and solo and chamber performances at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. His 2014-15 engagements include weeks with the Vancouver, San Diego, Brevard (FL), California and Richmond Symphonies, plus a Cliburn Festival residency.
Internationally, he has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Sinfonia Varsovia, Shanghai Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Orquestra Filarmonica de Jalisco, and has played recitals in Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and at Chopin Festivals variously held in Poland, at Wroclaw and Duzniki-Zdrój.
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