Adrian Adlam

{{Short description|British violinist, conductor and music educator}}

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Adrian Adlam (born 24 December 1963) is a British violinist, 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 US and Japan. He has appeared as concertmaster with several European orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra,London Symphony Orchestra, [http://lso.co.uk/downloadables/lumps/upload/472-35.pdf Complete Discography]. Retrieved 20 December 2008. the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and the BBC Scottish 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 Pizzicato Supersonic award in 2007.[http://www.pizzicato.lu/about.htm Pizzicato] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323024742/http://www.pizzicato.lu/about.htm |date=23 March 2010 }}, January 2005 Issue, quoted on [http://www.tacet.de/main/seite1.php?language=en&filename=production.php&bestnr=10330&layout=katalog Reviews: Carl Nielsen Violin Sonatas] at tacet.de. Retrieved 20 December 2008. Adlam's recording of the Schubert Octet was voted surround sound audio DVD of the year 2004 by the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister ,VDT [https://web.archive.org/web/20110518144608/http://www.tonmeister.de/vdt/modules.php?file=content%2Fawards%2Fpreistraeger_surroundpreis Surround-Sound Prizes 2000 - 2004]. Retrieved 20 December 2008. and his performance there has been characterized as showing "almost superhuman strength and virtuosity".Laurence Vittes, [http://www.audaud.com/audaud/MAR05/hires/hires2.html Review: Schubert: Octet, D. 803], Audiophile Audition (online magazine), March 2005. Retrieved 21 December 2008[http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=219324 Schubert: Octet In F Major / Camerata Freden ], arkivmusic.com. Retrieved 21 March 2011Ung-aang Talay, [http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=26092 Serene Lyricism and Seductive Tone: Camerata Freden Plays Schubert's Octet, Recorded in Surround-Sound] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081115023721/http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=26092 |date=15 November 2008 }}, Bangkok Post, 6 October 2005. Retrieved 20 December 2008.

As co-founder and artistic director of the International Freden Music Festival (Internationale Fredener Musiktage) in Germany, Adlam is responsible for the programming and commissioning of new works by some of the leading contemporary composers. On 6 August 2005, he played in the world premiere of Christian Jost's eingefroren (Trio for violin, clarinet, and piano) at the Freden Festival.Schott Music, [http://www.schott-international.com/shop/php/Proxy.php?purl=/essh/1/1000137/1660573/show,215441,s.html eingefroren] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212232145/http://www.schott-international.com/shop/php/Proxy.php?purl=%2Fessh%2F1%2F1000137%2F1660573%2Fshow%2C215441%2Cs.html |date=12 February 2012 }}. Retrieved 20 December 2008. The festival was awarded the Praetorius Musikpreis Niedersachsen from the state of Niedersachsen in 2010.[http://www.praetoriusmusikpreis.niedersachsen.de/show/index.php?idref=47 Praetorius Musikpreis.Niedersachsen]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Lower Saxony 2010

As a member of the Hans Koller Octet, Adlam appeared in the 2007 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.Spencer Evans, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2007/05/08/jazz_festival_2007_feature.shtml Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2007] (review of the Hans Koller Octet at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival), BBC Gloucester, 5 August 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2008 He also directs the Winchester Music Festival Orchestra and has been teaching at Winchester College.[http://www.winchestercollege.org/dons-e-mail-addresses Music: Mr Adrian Adlam] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920201534/http://www.winchestercollege.org/dons-e-mail-addresses |date=20 September 2011 }} Winchester College 2011