The Art of Excellence – Artistic Piano Partnership |
Part of an artistic piano partnership between the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music in Poland and Manhattan School of Music.
Manhattan School of Music
130 Claremont Ave, New York, NY 10027, USA
March 3-5, 2020
December 4, 2020
MAR 3 | 7:30 PM
Adam Kośmieja (BM ’11), Piano Recital
Works by K. Serocki, Sikorski, Kornowicz, and Zubel
Myers Recital Hall
MAR 4 | 7:30 PM
Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Piano Master Class
Works of Chopin
Mikowsky Recital Hall
MAR 6 | 7:30 PM
Ewa Pobłocka, Piano Recital
Works by Bach and Chopin
Mikowsky Recital Hall
and as part of the partnership, at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music, Poland:
DEC 4 | FRI
MASTER CLASS
Solomon Mikowsky, MSM Faculty, piano
Myers Recital Hall
PROGRAM
Kazimierz Serocki (1922–1981)
A piacere: Suggestions for Piano (1962-63)
Sonata (1955)
Inquietamente
Veloce
Elegiaco
Barbaro
Tomasz Sikorski (1939–1988)
Zerstreutes Hinausschauen (1971)
Jerzy Kornowicz (b. 1959)
Coma Berenices (1990)
Agata Zubel (b. 1978)
Three Miniatures for Piano (1998)
performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and multimedia artist in Europe, the United States, and Asia. A graduate of Manhattan School of Music as a student of Solomon Mikowsky, he was awarded the Harold and Helene Schonberg Pianist Scholarship (2007–2011), established in memory of the long-time leading music critic of the New York Times. He has performed at a number of great venues throughout the world, including New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, CCOM Concert Hall in Beijing, Shenzhen Concert Hall, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, and the Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall.
His studies were with Ludmila Kasyanenko, Jerzy Sulikowski, Solomon Mikowsky, and Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. He participated in piano master classes under Paul Badura-Skoda, Gary Graffman, Ivan Moravec, Andrei Gavrilov, Boris Berman, Mikhail Voskresensky, Lang Lang, and Dina Yoffe and had supplementary sessions with Arie Vardi, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Ewa Pobłocka.
Kośmieja has been a part of and performed at many international piano festivals, including the International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn,” Beijing Modern Music Festival, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, Shenzhen International Music Festival “Belt & Road,” Festivalul Internațional Craiova Muzicală in Romania, Musica Electronica Nova in Wrocław, International Contemporary Music and Visual Arts Festival “Mózg,” and International Piano Festivals in Spain to name a few. He has also toured as a soloist, performing in Japan, China, Mongolia, France, Czech Republic, Italy and many more.
In 2016 Kośmieja released his debut solo album on the DUX label, Serocki: Complete Works for Solo Piano, which has gone on to receive critical acclaim around the world. In 2017 he appeared on Stefan Weglowski’s album Contemporary Jewish Music (KAIROS). In 2018 he recorded Elzbieta Sikora’s Piano Concerto (2000) with Sinfonia Varsovia under Bassem Akiki and Tadeusz Wielecki’s Numerous Branches of Ramified Plaits (1988) for clarinet, piano and cello with Andrzej Bauer and Julian Paprocki, both for PWM Polish Publishers.
Adam Kośmieja holds a DMA degree in music performance from the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music in Poland where he is currently teaching.
