Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Presents

Concertos By Candlelight

Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

John V. Sinclair, Artistic Director and Conductor

Itamar Zorman, violin

Adam Golka, piano

Friday, February 17, 2023 and Saturday, February 18, 2023 | 7:30 pm

Knowles Memorial Chapel

Program

Splendor Fountain: Fanfare for Orchestra (6’)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Opus 26 (25’)

I. Vorspiel. Allegro moderato

II. Adagio

III. Finale. Allegro energico

Daniel Crozier

Max Bruch (1838-1920)

Itamar Zorman, violin

Intermission

The Final Judgement from The Book of Revelation (6.5’)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Opus 37 (35’)

I. Allegro con brio

II. Largo

III. Rondo

Adam Golka, piano

Eric Heumann (1992 - )

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

ADAM GOLKA , piano

Polish-American pianist Adam Golka has been 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.

Adam Golka begins 22/23 with recitals for Philip Lorenz International Keyboard Concerts and Mesa Arts Center, performing a program that bridges two long-term repertoire interests; Beethoven Sonatas, which he has explored and performed through his gripping 32@32 series (in which he paired each sonata with a short film that explored perspectives on the Sonatas, and an amalgam of distinguished guests, from astrophysicists to Alfred Brendel) and Brahms, whose complete piano works he will perform and record over the next few years.

This season’s repertoire includes Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto No. 1 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada (Spain), and tour a duo recital program with violinist Itamar Zorman with performances at Wigmore Hall, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park,

As public events in the United States have re-opened, Adam was engaged by the Buffalo Philharmonic and Asheville Symphonies to film concertos by Bach, Mozart, Clara Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich for online release. He has also recorded a recital for the Chelsea Music Festival at High Line Nine and performed for live audiences at

In 2020-2021, Adam performed the eleven-hour cycle of Beethoven’s Sonatas five times in its entirety, (three times for socially distanced audiences) with the premiere at the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park (Florida), once at the Archway Gallery in Houston, with a live-streamed cycle at the Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (NYC). Adam’s performances were complemented by 32 short films he created with Zac Nicholson, known as 32@32 (available on YouTube). “Adam Golka plays [Sonatas op. 10] with a certain brio, fiery, very free. After all, Beethoven dares in them fantasies, embellishments, cadenzas that the pianist seizes with a sense of improvisation, variations of mood, which never make you forget the simple beauty of his touch, the obviousness of his speech.”

Artamag (France)

Adam Golka is deeply indebted to his two main teachers, José Feghali and Leon Fleisher. Since finishing his formal studies, Adam has continued to develop his artistry through private mentorship from his favorite artists: Alfred Brendel, Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Ferenc Rados, and András Schiff, who invited Adam to give recitals at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and Tonhalle Zürich for the “Sir András Schiff Selects” concert series.

As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with dozens of orchestras, including the BBC Scottish Symphony, NACO (Ottawa), Warsaw Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, as well as the San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, New Jersey, and San Diego symphonies. Adam has collaborated with conductors such as Donald Runnicles, Pinchas Zukerman, Mark Wigglesworth, and Joseph Swensen; he has made countless concerto appearances with his brother, conductor Tomasz Golka. Adam gave his Carnegie Stern Auditorium début in 2010 with the New York Youth Symphony and his New York recital début at Alice Tully Hall, presented by the Musicians Emergency Fund.

Please turn off cell phone and electronic devices prior to the start of this performance. The Bach Festival Society’s policies strictly prohibit photography, filming, or recording of any kind during performances without the express written permission of the Society.

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Adam was an Artist-in-Residence for six years at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has recorded works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms and has premiered works composed for him by Richard Danielpour, Michael Brown, and Jarosław Gołębiowski.