started learning the piano at the age of six, studying for 13 years  with Ludmila Kasyanenko. He graduated from the Manhattan  School of Music in the class of Solomon Mikowsky (2011), receiving the Harold and Helene Schonberg Scholarship in 2007–11.  He then graduated from the class of Jerzy Sulikowski and Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy  in Bydgoszcz, where he is currently a lecturer, having obtained  a PhD.

Adam Kośmieja is one of the outstanding Polish pianists of  the young generation. His continuing repertoire quest and expanding concert experience include both classical and avantgarde, multimedia works. He is very active as a concert performer  in Poland and internationally, appearing on stages throughout  North America, Europe, and Asia, notably at Carnegie Hall’s  Weill Recital Hall and New York’s Yamaha Concert Artists Hall.  In Poland, he has cooperated with all the leading orchestras,  working with conductors such as Jacek Kaspszyk, Eiji Oue, Muhai Tang, Alexander Liebreich, José Maria Florêncio, Wojciech Michniewski, Szymon Bywalec, and Jakub Chrenowicz. Kośmieja has performed at many international festivals including  Warsaw Autumn, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, Shenzhen International  Music Festival Belt & Road, Festivalul Internaţional Craiova  Muzicală, Musica Electronica Nova in Wroclaw, and international  piano festivals in Spain, to name a few. In 2016 he released his debut solo album on the DUX label titled  Serocki – Complete Works for Solo Piano. In 2017 he appeared on  Stefan Węgłowski’s album Contemporary Jewish Music (Kairos).  In 2019 within the 100 / 100. Musical Decades of Freedom jubilee  edition, he recorded Elżbieta Sikora’s Piano Concerto (2000) with  Sinfonia Varsovia under Bassem Akiki, and Tadeusz Wielecki’s  Numerous Branches of Ramified Plaits (1988) for clarinet, piano  and cello with Andrzej Bauer and Julian Paprocki. In September  2021, his new solo album was released on Warner Classics: Tribute to Gulda, which has received global critical acclaim. Adam Kośmieja holds scholarships from the Polish Ministry of  Culture and National Heritage, Mayor of the City of Bydgoszcz,  and Marshall of the Cuiavian–Pomeranian Voivodship.