John Adams
Education and Training
BA and BM, Oberlin College; MM, New England Conservatory; piano studies with Ruth Edwards, Peter Takacs, Patricia Zander; pedagogy with Jean Stackhouse; Tanglewood Fellow; faculty, Phillips Academy.
John Adams
Division: Expanded Education
Department: Piano
Instrument: Piano
John Adams teaches children and adults at all stages of their musical development, from the young beginner to the advanced performer. His goal is to foster a love of music and the confidence to become an independent learner through a solid foundation in reading, rhythmic skills, technique, and interpretation.
His students have appeared on NPR’s From the Top and have been winners and finalists in the New England Piano Teachers Ruth Davidson Competition, the A. Ramon Rivera Competition, the Steinway Competition, and the New England Philharmonic Young Artists Competition. Several have gone on to undergraduate and graduate study in piano at schools of music at Boston University, Eastman, and Juilliard.
He has performed locally in chamber music and solo recitals at Tanglewood, Harvard, Longy, Tufts, the French Library, live on WGBH, and in Concord, New Hampshire and Brattleboro, Vermont. At Tufts Chapel, he performed the complete Beethoven violin and piano sonatas with five local violinists.
He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Phillips Academy and has also taught at Longy, Powers Music School, and the Concord Community Music School (NH). He is the longtime music director of the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in Somerville, MA.
Curriculum Vitae
BA and BM, Oberlin College; MM, New England Conservatory; piano studies with Ruth Edwards, Peter Takacs, Patricia Zander; pedagogy with Jean Stackhouse; Tanglewood Fellow; faculty, Phillips Academy.
