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Adam Grossman

Adam Grossman.

Education and Training

BA, Boston University; MFA, Brandeis University; Composition teachers include Allen Anderson, Martin Boykan, Robert Sirota and Yehudi Wyner; Violin teachers include Ronald Knudsen, Roman Totenberg and Zvi Zeitlin.

Adam Grossman

Division: Expanded Education

Department: Prep Ensembles

Adam Grossman has been conducting at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School since 1988.

He is Music Director of The Master Singers of Lexington and former Music Director of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and conductor of The Boston Cecilia Chamber Singers. His guest conducting appearances include performances with The Boston Cecilia, Dinosaur Annex New Music Ensemble, The Lexington Sinfonietta, Symphony by the Sea, Longy Summer Orchestra, Newton Community Chorus and Youth and Pops concerts with the Newton, Wellesley, and New Philharmonia Orchestras.  He has worked with the Chorus Pro Musica in conjunction with the Boston Philharmonic, spent a semester as Artist in Residence and Conductor of the Brandeis University Chorus, conducted at the Warebrook (Vermont) Festival for Contemporary Music, and has taught at the All Newton Music School and in the Newton, Brookline and Somerville public schools.

Mr. Grossman has conducted more than fifty premieres, including works by Allen Anderson, William Bolcom, Marti Epstein, Peter Lieberson, Rodney Lister, Pamela Marshall, John McDonald, Joyce Mekeel, Marjorie Merryman, William Pfaff, David Rakowski, Michael Weinstein and Lawrence Wolfe, as well as works of graduate composers at Brandeis and Tufts Universities, and local premieres by Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Finnissey and Richard Felciano.

Adam Grossman’s compositions have been performed by the Brockton, Cambridge, Lancaster (Pennsylvania), Newton, Waltham and Wellesley Symphony Orchestras, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra (Ontario), New England Conservatory Youth Repertory Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Symphony Pro Musica, North Shore Philharmonic, Northeastern University Concert Band, Tufts University Chorale, the Zamir Chorale of Metropolitan Detroit, the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Ann Arbor, Michigan, The Master Singers of Lexington, and at the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association conference, Crosscurrents concerts, the New School of Music, the All Newton Music School, the Newton Free Library, Franklin and Marshall College, New England Conservatory and Brandeis University.

Curriculum Vitae

BA, Boston University; MFA, Brandeis University; Composition teachers include Allen Anderson, Martin Boykan, Robert Sirota and Yehudi Wyner; Violin teachers include Ronald Knudsen, Roman Totenberg and Zvi Zeitlin.