Adrian Adlam

Adrian Adlam

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Name = Adrian Adlam


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Origin = Britain
Instrument = Violin
Genre = Classical
Occupation = musician, conductor, music educator
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Adrian Adlam (born 1963) is a British musician, conductor and music educator. He was educated at Westminster Abbey, Winchester College, Conservatoire Royale de Musique of Brussels and the Hochschule fur Musik, Hanover.

Adlam has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. He has appeared as leader with several European orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie and the Scottish BBC Symphony Orchestra in which he has collaborated with such distinguished musicians as Bernstein, Boulez, Mehta, Solti, Ozawa, Haitink, Davis and Tilson Thomas.

Adlam is known as a soloist for his performances of the concerti by Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Wieniawski, Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi. Adlam's CD recordings of works for violin by Carl Nielsen received a supersonic award and his recording of the Schubert octet was voted surround sound audio DVD of the year 2005 in Germany.

As artistic director of the International Freden Music Festival in Germany, Adlam is responsible for the programming and commissioning of new works by some of the leading contemporary composers. Adlam also directs the Winchester Music Festival Orchestra and teaches at Winchester College.


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