Richmond Symphony Orchestra Performs RACHMANINOFF 2 Tonight

By: Jan. 17, 2015
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December 23, 2014 - Richmond, Virginia the Richmond Symphony invites you to experience Rachmaninoff 2, tonight, January 17 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, January 18 at 3:00 pm at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage. This is the third Altria Masterworks Concert of the 2014-2015 season and will be led by Music Director Steven Smith.

Considered one of the most-loved piano concertos, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, features guest artist, Adam Golka. Golka has won widespread critical and popular acclaim with his "brilliant technique and real emotional depth" (The Washington Post) and has appeared with orchestras including the Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, New Jersey, Phoenix, San Diego and Fort Worth Symphonies.

The concert begins with blue cathedral by composer Jennifer Higdon. The music is a reflection on the journey of life as a tribute to her younger brother and his battle with cancer. The program also includes Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F Major.

Altria Masterworks are free for children 18 and under with a paid adult (tickets required). College student single tickets just $7. Soundwave college student subscriptions are $25.

The Masterworks Series is sponsored by Altria. The guest artist is sponsored by Towers Watson. The concert is also sponsored by The Richmond Symphony Orchestra League.

Tickets start at only $10 online at richmondsymphony.com or 1.800.514 ETIX.

About the Richmond Symphony

Founded in 1957, the Richmond Symphony is the largest performing arts organization in Central Virginia. The organization includes an orchestra of more than 70 professional musicians, the 150-voice Richmond Symphony Chorus and more than 200 students in the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra programs. Each season, more than 250,000 members of the community enjoy concerts, radio broadcasts, and educational outreach programs. The Richmond Symphony is partially funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

About Adam Golka

Born and raised in Texas to a family of musicians from Poland, 27-year-old pianist Adam Golka has won widespread critical and popular acclaim with his "brilliant technique and real emotional depth" (The Washington Post).

With his extensive concerto repertoire, beginning with Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Liszt, and now fully embracing Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bartok, Mr. Golka has appeared with such orchestras as the Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, New Jersey, Phoenix, San Diego and Fort Worth Symphonies.

Adam Golka spends summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and frequently participates in seminars at International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove. There he became associated with András Schiff, who will curate a series of recitals this season featuring Adam Golka in solo concerts in Berlin, New York and Zurich. Other 2014/15 engagements include weeks with the Vancouver, San Diego, Brevard, California and Richmond Symphonies, and an educational residency plus a Chopin recital at the Cliburn festival.

Internationally, he has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, among others; and has played recitals in Paris, Amsterdam and Tokyo, and in Poland in Wroc?aw and at the International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój.

Adam Golka has performed in the summer festivals of Caramoor, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart (New York City) and the International Keyboard Festival at Mannes in New York City, Music@Menlo in California, and the Colorado, Grand Teton, and Newport Music Festivals.

After studying with his mother, pianist Anna Golka, and Dariusz Pawlas of Rice University, Adam moved to Fort Worth to pursue studies with José Feghali at Texas Christian University. In 2012 he received an Artist's Diploma from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, studying with the legendary Leon Fleisher, and has continued his work in master classes with András Schiff, Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida. He is a winner of the Gilmore Young Artist award and the Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association. Adam Golka has

recently been appointed Artist-in-Residence at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA beginning in the 2014/15 season.


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