FRIDAY, 21/08 12:30 BENITA ROSE (United States) Nature and Nurture in the Maturation of Piano Prodigies and Composers (LR)
Benita Rose’s 2026 world concert tour features the music of Frédéric Chopin and Tomasz Kowalczyk in a program entitled Two Poles: The Best of Poland, Past and Present.
The program also draws on her latest album, Pure Magic: Benita Rose Plays Tomasz Kowalczyk.
A few days before Christmas 2025, Benita Rose received, via Facebook Messenger, the score of Tomasz Kowalczyk’s Romanticism of Psychedelic Customs, a work dedicated
to her by the composer. Having long admired Kowalczyk’s music, she began practicing it immediately, soon sharing her performance on YouTube and receiving the composer’s highest praise.
This encounter led her to explore Kowalczyk’s other works more deeply. She discovered music that ventures into emotional territories where few composers dare to go. Kowalczyk is unafraid of life’s darkest crevices, yet his music is also punctuated by what might be heard as halos of light. His distinctive compositional voice speaks to human vulnerability in places seemingly devoid of light, while allowing hope to remain present.
The presentation invites listeners to open their hearts and minds to the expressive possibilities of the pianistic palette through Kowalczyk’s music.
Prolific Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Tomasz Kowalczyk (b. 1990) has released more than 30 albums and created recordings across multiple genres, including piano, vocal, film and alternative electronic music. His distinctive sound has gained recognition through social media platforms, where listeners identify his unique timbres and musical language. Kowalczyk has also appeared internationally, including on Polish television programmes and Moving Classics TV, where he was featured as “Composer of the Week”.
He is also known for his collaborations with artist Maciej Ciszek.
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2026
Events
Fri, March 20
United States, New York City
Solo Recital by Benita Rose, pressented by Ressona Women in Music Concert Series: Chopin, Kowalczyk, Fernandez – Barrer
Sat, April 4
United States, New York City
,,Two Poles- Works of Chopin and Introducing Tomasz Kowalczyk” solo recital by Benita Rose
Fri, April 17
Brazil, Auditório Casa Thomas Jefferson Asa Sul
Performed by: Bridget de Moura Castro, piano (EUA); Jonathan Moyer, piano (EUA/BSB); Luciana Arraes, violino (BSB); Dib Franciss, piano (BSB); Ariadne Paixão, flauta (BSB); Esther Chung, piano (BSB); Cenira Schreiber, piano (UEMG); Carlos Aleixo dos Reis, viola (UFMG); Benita Rose, piano (EUA); José Carlos Vasconcellos, piano (RJ); Fernando Vago, piano (UFJF)
Sat, May 2
NYC, Tenri Cultural Institute
‘Live Music by Living Composers’ Music by Lora Al-Ahmad, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Daniel Alvarez Veizaga, Eve Beglarian, Chester Biscardi, Debra Kaye and Tomasz Kowalczyk, performed by: Lora Al Ahmad, Walter Aparicio, Rosemary Caviglia, Craig Ketter, Aleksandra Kocheva, Tiffany Leard, Mirna Lekié, Nnenna Ogwo and Benita Rose.
Tue, May 19
Barcelona, Spain
‘Two Poles- Works of Chopin and Introducing Tomasz Kowalczyk’ solo recital by Benita Rose
Thu, May 28
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
lecture recital on Tomasz Kowalczyk, music and stories by Benita Rose
Fri, June 19
Spain, Leon
‘Two Poles- Works of Chopin and Introducing Tomasz Kowalczyk’ solo recital by Benita Rose
Sat, June 27
Poland, Leszno, The Jan Amos Komeński State University of Applied Sciences in Leszno
‘Two Poles- Works of Chopin and Introducing Tomasz Kowalczyk’ solo recital by Benita Rose
Sun, June 28
Poland, Kraków, Institute of Culture Willa Decjusza
‘Two Poles- Works of Chopin and Introducing Tomasz Kowalczyk’ solo recital by Benita Rose
August 20-23
Estonia, Tallin
EPTA lecture recital: Nature and Nurture in Piano and Composition Education with works of Tomasz Kowalczyk
I often hear that my work is marked by the name of Neosymbolism. It is not a seal I have applied to myself in advance, but rather an echo that I find in the labyrinths of my own soul. For me, Neosymbolism is not merely an academic, cold thesis. It is a burning, almost physical longing for the unsaid—an escape from the dense, exhausted matter of language and sound that too insistently demands a simple, one-dimensional truth.
I do not call upon the shadows of the past century. My mission is rather to rekindle the primal fire of the Symbol—that spark which strikes directly at the core of the subconscious, forcing a quiet, intuitive decoding. I want to open a gate in every listener and reader to their most intimate, yet unknown garden of meanings. I seek the crystalline abstractness of the symbol—the ability to detach from the sensory shell of the world in order to capture and reveal what is most important: the pure essence of phenomena, the fleeting nature of thought, and the infinity of spiritual content.
I dedicate to you in this sheet music book all my reminiscences, impressions, and primal desires enchanted in piano sound.
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TOMASZ KOWALCZYK
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BIOGRAPHY
Tomasz Kowalczyk, (1990-) is a prolific Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, poet, and published author of four art books. Having released 30+ albums since 2018, he has created recordings that include multiple genres of music, including piano, vocal, film, and a full length alternative electronic album.
Kowalczyk’s sound has achieved fame through his many fans who recognize his unique timbres and talent through his sharing on social media videos and platforms. His compositions are being played and enjoyed by professional musicians, hobbyists, and eager audiences throughout the world.
As a concert pianist, Kowalczyk has toured internationally performing his own works in England, Germany, and Poland while his compositions play on notable radio broadcasts.
Kowalczyk has been a guest on Polish television programs and on international Movingclassics.tv which named Kowalczyk as “composer of the week” repeatedly.
Most recently, Tomasz Kowalczyk has collaborated with artist Maciej Ciszek, in unforgettable, electrifying, multi-media presentations of his solo piano music and Ciszek’s paintings.
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,,Music is the language of infinity; she is more enlightened than any science
and reaches further than all parallel dimensions.
She can paint clouds and write sonnets
and has the most beautiful rhymes with the purest colors.”
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AMBSADORIA is Tomasz Kowalczyk’s Album Out Now
From the first track, Dolly, you sense that you’re in the hands of a seasoned artist.
Good Day Noir Family, Listening to AMBSADORIA by Tomasz Kowalczyk feels like stepping into a futuristic odyssey.
Tomasz Kowalczyk & Seif Limami team up on dimensional and cerebral new album, AMBASADORIA
Drawing us in with a glistening, dimensional synthscape with astral tones and strummed nuances, expanding with a sublime guitar melody Tomasz Kowalczyk & Seif Limami open PERSEIDS with a peaceful frequency, before the track switched into a cerebral and meditative zone, taking us by surprise.
AMBASADORIA isn’t your typical album. It’s a glitch in the emotional matrix. A sonic novella whispered across timelines. It’s as if Tomasz Kowalczyk cracked open a parallel universe, invited a few ghosts from childhood dreams, late-night existential spirals, and inner monologues, and let them all jam out in cosmic duets.
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Tomasz Kowalczyk is a remarkable figure – composer, pianist, and poet. He’s a Leszno resident by birth and choice. Well-known and respected in Poland, and in his hometown of Leszno? Perhaps you know him. Perhaps you’ve seen him on Teleexpress? Or perhaps you’ve heard him on the radio? If not, it’s high time you met him.
Your music often guides listeners into meditative or hypnagogic states — yet you don’t rely on traditional tools like binaural beats. What compositional elements do you find most effective for shifting perception or calming the nervous system?
RR: First of all: I don’t think “binaural beats” are traditional tools at all, but…
The title, write it down and paint it, is as appropriate as the aforementioned wall, which I was thrown against with enormous force by the expression and energy of the latest musical production by Tomasz Kowalczyk from Leszno.
It’s hard not to mention three specialists in artistic presentation: Grzegorz Rombel, Grzegorz Kochaniec, and Maciej CISZEK, who created the album covers. Their expressiveness and meticulously crafted lines, combined with incredible imagination and vision, shape and express the visual impact of the works designed and executed for Tomasz. Salvador Dali would have been surprised…
