Featured Artists of the
Chamber Music Society
of Fort Worth

Adam Golka
Piano

Winner of the first prize and audience prize at the 2nd China Shanghai International Piano Competition, 19-year-old pianist Adam Golka has nearly 150 performances under his belt. He has performed with such exceptional orchestras as the Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Milwaukee, San Diego, Mobile, and Missouri Symphonies, as well as the Shanghai Philharmonic, Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco (Guadalajara), and Sinfonia Varsovia.

Golka's solo performances have taken him to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Nakanoshima Hall in Osaka, Merkin Hall in New York, the Ravinia Rising Stars Series, the Gilmore Rising Stars Series, Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, Hobby Center in Houston, Barge Music in Brooklyn, and the Music@Menlo and Duszniki-Chopin summer festivals. Throughout 2006, Adam gave his first performance of Beethoven's complete 32 piano sonatas cycle at TCU, in nine concerts, which were also viewed by hundreds via live internet webcasts.

Highlights from Adam's upcoming schedule include subscription performances of Ravel's Left Hand Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony under Donald Runnicles, Mozart's 23rd Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony under Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony under Andreas Delfs, and also performances with the Key West and Lubbock Symphonies and a solo recital at the Kravis Center (West Palm Beach).

Equally at home as concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, Golka's vast repertoire encompasses all corners of the piano literature, from Bach to Nicolai Kapustin, with a particular interest in forgotten masterworks, especially those by Nicolai Medtner. He enjoys talking to the audience in his concerts because he believes that communicating with the public can enhance the listening and overall experience of concerts.

A 1st generation American, Golka owes his unique background to his parents, Polish musicians who fled Communist-controlled Poland in the 1980's in search of a better life. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Golka moved to Fort Worth when he was 15 to study in the Artist Diploma Program at Texas Christian University. In spring 2005, he completed his studies there under the guidance of renowned pianist Josè Feghali. His other main teachers were Dariusz Pawlas and his mother, Anna Golka. He currently continues to take lessons with Mr. Feghali, whom Adam considers his most important mentor, and is constantly furthering his musical education by taking lessons with other favorite pianists of his.

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