He made his concert debut at age eleven with the Capella Bydgostiensis chamber orchestra from Bydgoszcz. He continued his postgraduate studies in the United States with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music (degree in 2011). He was awarded the full Harold and Helen Schonberg Piano Scholarship, established in memory of the long-time leading music critic of The New York Times. In 2013 he took up doctoral studies with Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Jerzy Sulikowski at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.
In Poland he has appeared as a soloist with leading symphony and chamber orchestras, as well as performing at Polish national and international music festivals, including the Polish Piano Music Festival in Słupsk (winning the Youth Scene Award) and Gilmore Music Festival. He has given concerts in the United States as well as Japan, France, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Italy, and the Czech Republic. He has participated in masterclasses run by Andrei Gavrilov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Gary Graffman, Ivan Moravec, Mikhail Voskresensky, Kirill Gerstein, Lang Lang, Dina Yoffe, and had supplementary sessions with Arie Vardi, Dmitri Bashkirov, Earl Wild, and David Dubal. He also studied composition with J. Mark Stambaugh, and his trio for violin, clarinet and piano received instruction from David Krakauer.
He won the 1st Prize in the Mieczysław Munz Competition in New York in 2009 and 1st Prize at the Chopin Piano Competition at Columbia University in 2010. At the Prague Music Performance Institute & Festival in 2013, he won 1st prize in the Josef Suk Piano Competition.
His repertoire and performing experience range from the baroque to the latest contemporary and experimental music, with particular focus on the music of the twentieth century. Currently Adam Kośmieja is preparing a PhD on the complete piano music of Kazimierz Serocki, including a major project under the patronage of Ableton Live and Warsaw Autumn: the revitalization of Serocki’s final work, Pianophonie.
Another new music project, prepared in cooperation with American jazz pianist and 2014 Grammy Nominee Christian Sands, is 3 X Piano, which combines the classical, jazz and electronic piano music in concerts aimed at eclectic audiences.
Kośmieja has been named cultural ambassador by Bydgoszcz, the city of his birth, and awarded numerous grants and scholarships in 2007–10 for his contributions to the cultural development of the city.
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