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David Adams
Listen to David Adams, accompanied by Kenneth Griffiths in:
Dvorak - Song op.83, no. 1
Dvorak - Song op.83, no. 5
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DAVID ADAMS has sung as lyric tenor in opera and concert in Italy, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, and the US. In Austria and Germany he was a member of the resident ensembles of the Vienna Kammeroper, Kaiserslautern Pfalztheater, and Sarländisches Statstheater, and also appeared on German television. In Italy he sang with the Opera Barga Festival for three years. He has performed as tenor soloist with numerous regional orchestras throughout the US.
Appointed to the faculty of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music in 1980, Mr. Adams is Professor of Voice and, since 1988, Head of the Performance Studies Division. He has degrees from Indiana University and the University of New Mexico, and pursued additional studies at L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy as the recipient of a Fulbright Grant. He has served on the faculty of the Aspen Music School, and is currently co-artistic director of the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca (Italy), a summer program of the College-Conservatory of Music.
As a performer, specialized areas of interest include the evangelist roles in Bach's Passions (superb diction and feeling, Dayton Daily News), Czech vocal music (Janácek's The Diary of One Who Vanished: a splendid performance. He evoked so much beauty from the vocal lines and the Czech text, St. Louis Post-Dispatch), and contemporary music (Musical America called him a compelling interpreter of Elliott Carter's In Sleep, In Thunder). In 1995 he sang John Corigliano's Poem in October in New York's Merkin Hall.
Prof. Adams is the author of A Handbook of Diction for Singers published by Oxford University Press, and The Song and Duet Texts of Antonín Dvorák, published by Leyerle Publications. Three times in recent years students of his have reached the finals of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and students of his have won other prestigious competitions, including the Houston Grand Opera and the National Federation of Music Clubs. Former students are singing professionally in Europe and the US and are teaching throughout the US.
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