Adam Sliwinski Sō Percussion: Ensemble - in - Residence
“thoughtfully nuanced”
– The New York Times
Adam Sliwinski has built a dynamic career of creative collaboration as percussionist, pianist, conductor, teacher, and writer. He specializes in bringing composers, performers, and other artists together to create exciting new work. A member of the ensemble So Percussion (proclaimed as “brilliant” and “consistently impressive” by the New York Times) since 2002, Adam hastoured extensively around the world.
Adam has been praised as a soloist by the New York Times for his “shapely, thoughtfully nuanced account” of David Lang’s marimba pieceString of Pearls. He has performed as a percussionist many times with the International Contemporary Ensemble, founded by classmates from Oberlin. Though he trained primarily as a percussionist, Adam’s first major solo album, releasedon New Amsterdam records in 2015, is a collection of etudes calledNostalgic Synchronicfor the Prepared Digital Piano, an invention of Princeton colleague Dan Trueman. In recent years, Adam’s collaborations have grown to include conducting. He has conducted over a dozen world premieres with the International Contemporary Ensemble, including residencies at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. In 2014, ECM Records released the live recording of the premiere of Vijay Iyer’sRadhe Radhewith Adam conducting.
Adam writes about music on his blog. He has also contributed a series of articles to newmusicbox.org, and theCambridge Companion to Percussionfrom Cambridge University press features his chapter “Lost and Found: Percussion Chamber Music and the Modern Age.”
Adam is co-director of the So Percussion Summer Institute, an annual intensive course on the campus of Princeton University for college-aged percussionists. He is also co-director of the percussion program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and has taught percussion both in masterclass and privately at more than 80 conservatories and universities in the USA and internationally. Along with his colleagues in So Percussion, Adam is Edward T. Cone performer-in-residence at Princeton University.
Education
Doctor of Musical Arts: Yale University
Masters in Music: Yale University
Bachelors in Music: Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Studies with Robert van Sice and Michael Rosen.
Performance Highlights
Carnegie Hall, The Bonnaroo Festival, Disney Concert Hall with the LA Philharmonic,?Barbican Centre
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Courses
Spring 2022
MUS 245: Practices and Principles of RhythmFall 2020
MUS 534: Ends and Means: Issues in CompositionWebsite Blog