His pupils have won over 100 top prizes in some of the most important international competitions, including first prizes in the Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Santander, Beethoven (Bonn), Iturbi (Valencia), Maria Canals (Barcelona), Pilar Bayona (Zaragoza), Jaén, Andorra, Panama and New Orleans, and other top prizes in the Tchaikovsky, Dublin, Sviatoslav Richter (Moscow), Vianna da Motta (Lisbon), Porto, Villa del Mar (Chile), Cleveland, Montreal and E-Competition (Minneapolis).

They have performed as soloists with the Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Omaha, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Bamberg, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Halle, Jerusalem, Liverpool, Munich, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tenerife, Turin and Vancouver symphony orchestras; the BBC, Berlin, Brno, Dresden, Las Palmas, London (Royal), Milan's La Scala, Moscow, Prague, Rotterdam, and Israel philharmonic orchestras; the Zürich Tonhalle; the Dresden Staatskappelle Orchestra and the national orchestras of Finland, France, Mexico and the Czech Republic, with such noted conductors as Comissiona, Dutoit, Ehrling, Eschenbach, Fischer, Frübeck de Burgos, Gielen, Graf, Herbig, Macal, Masur, Semkow, Skrowaczewski and Zinman.

Solomon Mikowsky was born in Cuba of Russian-Polish parentage. His early training was with César Pérez Sentenat, who had studied in Madrid with Cubiles and in Paris with Joaquín Nin, a pupil of Moszkowski, himself a pupil of Liszt. He was later granted scholarships by the Cuban government and the Juilliard School to continue his studies in New York with Sascha Gorodnitzki, the foremost pupil of the legendary Russian virtuoso Josef Lhevinne, receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from Juilliard and a doctorate from Columbia University. Mikowsky is regularly invited to serve on the juries of some of the most important international piano competitions. He has given master classes at the leading conservatories in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Salzburg, London, Paris, Rotterdam, Madrid, Valencia, Istanbul, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and throughout Australia and the Far East. A Steinway Artist, he has performed in the past in Latin America, the Far East, and the United States and participated in festivals in France, Italy, Spain, Korea and Taiwan. During the summers, he directs his International Piano Festivals which consist of two piano courses in Torrelodones (Spain) and in Paris, and the participation of his piano students as performers in more than 20 recitals throughout Spain.

Mikowsky has published a book on nineteenth-century music, has contributed to Américas, the Organization of American States journal and has been featured in interviews in leading professional magazines such as Clavier (USA), Chopin (Japan), Piano Artistry (China), Sur Expres (Spain) and Musica di Pianoforte (Korea). His former academic positions have been as a member of the faculties at New York University, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and The Juilliard School. In recognition of his pedagogical contribution, Solomon Mikowsky has been awarded the Cintas Prize by the United Nations Institute of International Education.