Cello and piano recital with Jan Muller-Szeraws (cello) & Adam Golka (piano) at Brimmer & May, Chestnut Hill

Bach: Sonata TBA
Franck: Sonata in A Major
Lutoslawski: Grave
Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in A Major Op. 69

Polish-American pianist Adam Golka has been regularly on the concert stage since the age of sixteen, when he won first prize at the 2nd China Shanghai International Piano Competition. He has also received the Gilmore Young Artist Award and the Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award from the American Pianists Association.

With his extensive concerto repertoire, Golka has appeared as a soloist with dozens of orchestras, among those the BBC Scottish, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Phoenix, San Diego, Fort Worth, Vancouver, Seattle, and Jacksonville symphonies, Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Adam made his Carnegie Hall Isaac Stern Auditorium Debut in 2010, performing Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto with the New York Youth Symphony, and also performed a cycle of all five Beethoven concerti in 2011 with the Lubbock Symphony, under the baton of his brother, Tomasz Golka. As a recitalist, he has performed scores of solo concerts.

Since his early debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción Jan Muller-Szeraws has performed frequently as a soloist with orchestras in Chile, Germany andthe United States. He has been a guest artist at many festivals including the Cape & Islands, Rockport, El Paso Pro-Musica, Strings in the Mountains (Steamboat Springs, CO), Delaware, Music at Gretna, Florida Arts, Sebago Long Lake and Kingston Chamber Music Festivals, the Garth Newel Music Center and the European Chamber Music Association. Recent performances include the world premiere and recording of Bernard Hoffer’s Concerto di Camera II for solo cello and ensemble written for him and Boston Musica Viva, the Boston premiere of Gunther Schuller’s cello concerto as well as John Harbison’s and Chou Wen-Chung’s cello concertos with the New England Philharmonic, Schumann concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción and Orquesta de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Shostakovich concerto no.1 and Brahms double concerto with violinist Bayla Keyes and the Concord Orchestra (MA), Haydn C major concerto with Worcester Collegium, Dvorak concerto with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He also recorded Pedro Humberto Allende’s cello concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, recording which has been released by the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts as part of the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Chilean Independence. During the 2010/2011 season he was invited to join the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as guest principal cellist for two projects, including a live concert broadcast of Bavarian Broadcasting of Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 15 with Mikhail Pletnev conducting as well as a tour to China with the orchestra’s principal conductor, Jonathan Nott.

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