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Biography - updated 21/04/2008
Adam is a keen exponent of the many guises of trombone playing. His enthusiasm has led him to partake in recordings and concerts all over the world with some of today's finest ensembles and orchestras including specialist exponents of early music including Concerto Palatino and La Fenice and jazz including Aka Moon. His work can be heard on dozens of recordings covering a repertoire spanning over 600 years. Recent projects have included recording the sonatas of Dario Castello, virtuosic chamber music by Matthias Weckmann, Schmelzer, Biber and Buxtehude and early 15th century playing techniques as well as combining African, Indian and Western playing styles with jazz and baroque influences with Aka Moon. Adam is a full time member of several world-leading ensembles including His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Caecilia-Concert and Oltremontano.

Adam teaches regularly on international early music courses including Wim Becu's Academia Giovanni Gabrieli in Belgium and the Newark Early Music Course with Jamie Savan in the UK. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and given masterclasses in Sweden, Israel, and a course for renaissance brass playing on an organic cattle farm in Southern Germany! Adam is not only active as a teacher of the sackbut but also teaches music at the British School in Antwerp.

Since 2000, Adam has been the principal trombone with Sir John Eliot Gardiner's English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. Activities with these groups have included recording all the Cantatas of JS Bach, orchestral works by Brahms, and the groundbreaking live DVD recording of Berlioz "Les Troyens". He is also principal trombone of The Kings Consort with whom he recently performed the Leopold Mozart concerto.

From 2005 to 2007 Adam was part of the production “VSPRS”, a ballet based upon Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 which toured world-wide with Alain Platel's Ballet C de la B, Oltremontano and Aka Moon in which he exploited among other things the possibilities of contemporary jazz improvisation on the sackbut! He continues to work in this genre with the sackbut as part of the VSPRS concert orchestra and in projects mixing world music, contemporary jazz and baroque styles with Aka Moon.

In 2007 Adam was elected an honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music when he was awarded the ARAM for distinguished significant work in the music profession.