is a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant in music history and theory at the University of Connecticut. Adam holds a MM in Music Theory and a BM with a double major in Music Performance and Music Theory, both from the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia.
His research interests include Ludomusicology (specifically video game music) and music pedagogy. Adam plays English horn, oboe and piano. Since joining the UConn music department, Adam has played various period instruments in UCONN’s Collegium Musicum, including recorder and crumhorn.
During his undergraduate studies, Adam performed in the Temple University Wind Symphony, the Temple University Concert Orchestra and Symphonic Band, and with the Temple University choirs. He also performed with the University of Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra and the Cairn University Orchestra.
Adam has performed many times as a soloist during special events and services at The Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where he is also a life-long member.
He has studied with Elizabeth Starr-Masoudnia, English hornist of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
He has been a long time piano student of Rhonda Stull at Tri-County Conservatory of Music in Spinnerstown, Bucks County. He studied piano with faculty during his time at Temple University.
He currently resides in Milford Township with his parents, and an English Labrador retriever called Zeke, in a 200-year-old Bucks County farmhouse.
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