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Tomasz Golka (born 1975) is a Polish-American conductor, composer and violinist. Golka is the son of pianist Anna Karczewska-Golka and trombonist George Golka. He is the great-grandson of Max Stern. His younger brother Adam Golka is a pianist. [1]
Golka was born in 1975 in Warsaw, in Poland. [2] His family emigrated to Mexico when he was young. [2] He completed bachelor's and master's degrees in violin at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and became an American citizen in 1996. [3] He studied conducting under David Effron at Indiana University and later under Markand Thakar and Gustav Meier at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University. [2] [4] [5]
In 2003, Golka won first prize at the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico City. [6] [7] [8]
From 2003-04, Golka was a visiting professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and served as a conductor for the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. [9]
In 2006, Golka was a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival. [10] His work at Tanglewood included conducting a performance of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale with composers Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, and John Harbison as narrators. [11]
From 2007 to 2012, Golka was music director of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. [12] [13]
From 2008 to 2010, Golka was music director of the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra. [14] In 2010, Golka became music director of the Riverside Philharmonic. From 2014 to 2015, he was Chief Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. [15] With the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, he gave several world premieres, including the Colombian premiere of Thomas Adès's Asyla. [16]
Golka received a certificate in film scoring from UCLA Extension, where he was the recipient of the BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Scholarship. [17]
On 1 September 2014, Golka married Anna Kostyuchek, associate concertmaster of the Riverside Philharmonic. The couple reside in Los Angeles, California. [18]
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