Nicholas Canellakis and Adam Golka in Concert
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
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Adam Golka, Piano
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The Chopin Society of Houston was proud to present a very special concert with cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Adam Golka who performed works by Schumann, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. The concert took place on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 7PM at Houston Community College, Spring Branch Campus.
Program
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70, for cello and piano
Frederic Chopin: Sonata in G Minor, op. 65, for cello and piano
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo: Allegro con brio
III. Largo
IV. Finale: Allegro
INTERMISSION
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, for cello and piano
I. Lento – Allegro moderato
II. Allegro scherzando
III. Andante
IV. Allegro mosso
About the Artists
Nicholas Canellakis
Nicholas Canellakis has established himself as one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, performing throughout the United States and Europe to critical acclaim. In The New York Times his playing was praised as "impassioned" and "soulful," with "the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis rich, alluring tone."
Mr. Canellakis is currently an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, having been a member of the society's coveted CMS Two program from 2009 to 2012. He is a frequent guest artist at Bargemusic in New York City, and has given concerts in some of the country's most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, the Kimmel Center, and Disney Hall. He has performed at the festivals of Santa Fe, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Mecklenburg, Moab, Bridgehampton, Sarasota, Verbier, Aspen, and Music from Angel Fire.
Since winning his first concerto competition at the age of 11, Mr. Canellakis has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and has been the recipient of many honors, including First prize in the Musicatri International Competition in Italy and a top prize in the Johansen International Competition in Washington D.C.
From 2008-2010, Mr. Canellakis was in residence at Carnegie Hall as a member of the Academy, in which he performed regularly at Carnegie Hall and worked closely with New York City public schools to enhance their music education. Mr. Canellakis graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Orlando Cole and Peter Wiley, and holds a master's degree from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Paul Katz and received the Gregor Piatigorsky Award. An avid teacher, Mr. Canellakis is on the faculty of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division.
Filmmaking is a special interest of Mr. Canellakis. He has produced and directed several music videos and fictional shorts, and hosts a comedy web series called "Conversations with Nick Canellakis," all of which can be found on his website at www.nicholascanellakis.com.
Adam Golka
Born and raised in Texas to a family of musicians from Poland, 26 year old pianist Adam Golka has won widespread critical and popular acclaim with his “brilliant technique and real emotional depth” (The Washington Post). He has garnered international prizes including the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award, first prize in the 2003 China Shanghai International Piano Competition and the 2009 Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association.
With his extensive concerto repertoire, beginning with Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Liszt, and now fully embracing Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bartok, Golka has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, San Diego, Fort Worth, Syracuse, Pensacola, Lansing, Knoxville, Albany, South Dakota, and Grand Rapids symphonies, and with the Grand Teton and Colorado Music Festival orchestras. Internationally, he has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, and the Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco with conductors including Donald Runnicles, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Pinchas Zukerman, Mark Wigglesworth, Michael Christie, Andreas Delfs, Edwin Outwater, David Lockington, Daniel Hege, Julian Kuerti, Michael Morgan, Timothy Muffitt, Ryan McAdams, as well as his brother, conductor Tomasz Golka.
Following a summer at Marlboro, the New York based Golka kicks off the 2013/14 season with a recital at Ravinia, and solo and chamber music concerts at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. He returns to the Fort Worth Symphony for a week of Brahms 2 performances with Joshua Weilerstein, followed by his debut at the New Jersey Symphony playing the Ravel G Major cto. with Music Director, Jacques Lacombe. The Ann Arbor Symphony sees him back for performances of Beethoven 2.
Last summer Adam Golka made his debut at Caramoor in a Beethoven program with Colin Jacobsen, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in pre-concert recitals of Lutoslawski and Brahms. Recitals followed across the 2012/13 season in New York, Ohio, Boston, Florida and in Wroclaw, Poland; plus guest artist performances with the Szymanowski Quartet at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. He opened the Omaha Symphony’s season playing Beethoven’s Piano Cto. No. 2, joined the Jacksonville Symphony for Beethoven’s “Emperor” Cto., and played Mozart k. 491 with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Tchaikovsky Piano Cto. No. 1 with the Riverside County Philharmonic.
Adam Golka has played all five Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Lubbock Symphony, and concertos by Mozart, Liszt and Ravel with the symphony orchestras in Phoenix, Duluth-Superior, Eugene, Fairfax, and Santa Fe. In 2010, Golka made his Isaac Stern Auditorium debut at Carnegie Hall, playing Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto with the New York Youth Symphony and, in 2011, joined a Ravinia Steans Institute tour, with dates in Boston, Chicago, New York City, Stamford, and at the Highland Park Music Festival.
Further afield, he has played solo and chamber music concerts at the Concertgebouw’s Kleine Zaal, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, Nakanoshima Hall in Osaka, the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, and at prestigious festivals such as the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, the New York City International Keyboard Festival at Mannes, the Newport Music Festival, and the Duszniki Chopin festival.
Adam Golka has premiered solo works written for him by Richard Danielpour and Michael Brown, and is an avid chamber musician and lieder partner. After studying with his mother, pianist Anna Golka, 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 contined his work in masterclasses with Andras Schiff, Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida.
Program
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70, for cello and piano
Frederic Chopin: Sonata in G Minor, op. 65, for cello and piano
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo: Allegro con brio
III. Largo
IV. Finale: Allegro
INTERMISSION
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, for cello and piano
I. Lento – Allegro moderato
II. Allegro scherzando
III. Andante
IV. Allegro mosso
About the Artists
Nicholas Canellakis
Nicholas Canellakis has established himself as one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, performing throughout the United States and Europe to critical acclaim. In The New York Times his playing was praised as "impassioned" and "soulful," with "the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis rich, alluring tone."
Mr. Canellakis is currently an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, having been a member of the society's coveted CMS Two program from 2009 to 2012. He is a frequent guest artist at Bargemusic in New York City, and has given concerts in some of the country's most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, the Kimmel Center, and Disney Hall. He has performed at the festivals of Santa Fe, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Mecklenburg, Moab, Bridgehampton, Sarasota, Verbier, Aspen, and Music from Angel Fire.
Since winning his first concerto competition at the age of 11, Mr. Canellakis has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and has been the recipient of many honors, including First prize in the Musicatri International Competition in Italy and a top prize in the Johansen International Competition in Washington D.C.
From 2008-2010, Mr. Canellakis was in residence at Carnegie Hall as a member of the Academy, in which he performed regularly at Carnegie Hall and worked closely with New York City public schools to enhance their music education. Mr. Canellakis graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Orlando Cole and Peter Wiley, and holds a master's degree from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Paul Katz and received the Gregor Piatigorsky Award. An avid teacher, Mr. Canellakis is on the faculty of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division.
Filmmaking is a special interest of Mr. Canellakis. He has produced and directed several music videos and fictional shorts, and hosts a comedy web series called "Conversations with Nick Canellakis," all of which can be found on his website at www.nicholascanellakis.com.
Adam Golka
Born and raised in Texas to a family of musicians from Poland, 26 year old pianist Adam Golka has won widespread critical and popular acclaim with his “brilliant technique and real emotional depth” (The Washington Post). He has garnered international prizes including the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award, first prize in the 2003 China Shanghai International Piano Competition and the 2009 Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association.
With his extensive concerto repertoire, beginning with Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Liszt, and now fully embracing Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bartok, Golka has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, San Diego, Fort Worth, Syracuse, Pensacola, Lansing, Knoxville, Albany, South Dakota, and Grand Rapids symphonies, and with the Grand Teton and Colorado Music Festival orchestras. Internationally, he has appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, and the Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco with conductors including Donald Runnicles, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Pinchas Zukerman, Mark Wigglesworth, Michael Christie, Andreas Delfs, Edwin Outwater, David Lockington, Daniel Hege, Julian Kuerti, Michael Morgan, Timothy Muffitt, Ryan McAdams, as well as his brother, conductor Tomasz Golka.
Following a summer at Marlboro, the New York based Golka kicks off the 2013/14 season with a recital at Ravinia, and solo and chamber music concerts at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. He returns to the Fort Worth Symphony for a week of Brahms 2 performances with Joshua Weilerstein, followed by his debut at the New Jersey Symphony playing the Ravel G Major cto. with Music Director, Jacques Lacombe. The Ann Arbor Symphony sees him back for performances of Beethoven 2.
Last summer Adam Golka made his debut at Caramoor in a Beethoven program with Colin Jacobsen, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in pre-concert recitals of Lutoslawski and Brahms. Recitals followed across the 2012/13 season in New York, Ohio, Boston, Florida and in Wroclaw, Poland; plus guest artist performances with the Szymanowski Quartet at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. He opened the Omaha Symphony’s season playing Beethoven’s Piano Cto. No. 2, joined the Jacksonville Symphony for Beethoven’s “Emperor” Cto., and played Mozart k. 491 with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Tchaikovsky Piano Cto. No. 1 with the Riverside County Philharmonic.
Adam Golka has played all five Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Lubbock Symphony, and concertos by Mozart, Liszt and Ravel with the symphony orchestras in Phoenix, Duluth-Superior, Eugene, Fairfax, and Santa Fe. In 2010, Golka made his Isaac Stern Auditorium debut at Carnegie Hall, playing Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto with the New York Youth Symphony and, in 2011, joined a Ravinia Steans Institute tour, with dates in Boston, Chicago, New York City, Stamford, and at the Highland Park Music Festival.
Further afield, he has played solo and chamber music concerts at the Concertgebouw’s Kleine Zaal, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, Nakanoshima Hall in Osaka, the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, and at prestigious festivals such as the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, the New York City International Keyboard Festival at Mannes, the Newport Music Festival, and the Duszniki Chopin festival.
Adam Golka has premiered solo works written for him by Richard Danielpour and Michael Brown, and is an avid chamber musician and lieder partner. After studying with his mother, pianist Anna Golka, 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 contined his work in masterclasses with Andras Schiff, Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida.