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Elegy by Sergei Rachmaninov
August 7, 2017 at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Washington, DC
The Maiden and the Nightingale By Enrique Granados
August 7, 2017 at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Washington, DC
Soirée De Vienne by Strauss/Grünfeld
August 7, 2017 at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Washington, DC
Melody from "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Gluck/Sgambati
June 5, 2015 at Washington Conservatory of Music, Bethesda, MD
"Carmen Variations" by Bizet/Horowitz
June 5, 2015 at Washington Conservatory of Music, Bethesda, MD
Etudes by Gershwin/Wild
June 5, 2015 at Washington Conservatory of Music, Bethesda, MD
"Bethena (A Concert Waltz)" by Scott Joplin
November 13, 2016 at Calvary UMC Community Concerts, Frederick, MD
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Hailed for his prodigious technique and praised by the Washington Post for an “unusually fresh and arresting approach to the piano,” pianist Michael Adcock has cultivated a versatile career as soloist, chamber musician and pre-concert lecturer. Recipient of the 1998 Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, Mr. Adcock was also a prizewinner in the 1996 Washington International Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competitions in Chicago and New York. Mr. Adcock gave his Carnegie Weill Recital Hall debut in December of 1998. Mr. Adcock earned Master’s, Artist Diploma and Doctoral degrees from Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Leon Fleisher and Ellen Mack, and was adjunct faculty in theory and chamber music. Mr. Adcock took his Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College-Conservatory and attended secondary school at North Carolina School of the Arts.
Michael Adcock’s new solo CD, “Ragtime in Washington,” was released on the Centaur label in July 2018, and includes both classic and contemporary ragtime works. Mr. Adcock’s solo CD, “Keyboard Transcriptions,” was released by Centaur in May 2017, and includes Prokofiev’s transcription of his Romeo and Juliet ballet, as well as the Gershwin-Wild Seven Virtuoso Etudes. Mr. Adcock is a featured soloist in "Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty," the award-winning and only documentary on the composer (2016). In January 2016, Mr. Adcock was a featured artist on Washington, DC’s WETA-FM “Front Row Washington” and has also been featured on radio broadcasts in New York City (WQXR), Chicago (WFMT), New Jersey (WWFM), Tampa, FL (WUSF), on SiriusXM, NET Nebraska (KUCV), and BBC Newshour, and on television on CTV (Canada). Mr. Adcock has collaborated with many notable musicians including Denyce Graves, Ani Kavafian, Gervase dePeyer, Phillip Muller, David Jolley, James Buswell and the St. Petersburg String Quartet. Former Artist-in-Residence at the Aspen Institute (MD), Mr. Adcock has been associated with many chamber series and summer festivals and is currently associate piano faculty at Sarasota Music Festival, a faculty member of Washington Conservatory in Bethesda, MD, and artistic director of the UU Chalice Concert Series in Columbia, MD.
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“Adcock plays with exceptional sensitivity and a striking dynamic range”
Cleveland Classical / "Ragtime in Washington"
“the playing is superb and the renditions charming and affectionate”
Classical Candor / "Ragtime in Washington"
“a required listen”
Cinemusical / "Ragtime in Washington"
“posits ragtime as a living, breathing art form”
Winnipeg Free Press / “Ragtime in Washington”
“Sheer delight is also the primary reason to hear two new Centaur discs featuring pianist Michael Adcock.”
TransCentury Communications / “Ragtime in Washington”; “Keyboard Transcriptions”
“strongly recommend . . . ragtime played with the respect it deserves”
Classical Music Sentinel / “Ragtime in Washington”
Reviews
“impressive ability and fluid style” … “a rich program with plenty of drama and brilliance”
TheWholeNote/ “Keyboard Transcriptions”
“technical skill, virtuosic flair, and interpretive ability”
Cinemusical / "Keyboard Transcriptions"
“Sheer delight is also the primary reason to hear two new Centaur discs featuring pianist Michael Adcock.”
TransCentury Communications / “Ragtime in Washington”; “Keyboard Transcriptions”
Michael Adcock is a featured solo artist in first-ever Samuel Barber documentary
In the 2016 documentary “Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty,” Michael Adcock plays the last movement of Barber’s Piano Sonata as well as a section of Barber’s Excursions. Artists in the film, which was directed and filmed by H. Paul Moon, Zen Violence Films, include Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, and Thomas Hampson....learn more
"We close out the month's broadcast on January 25 with a rollicking solo recital by Washington-area pianist and Washington Conservatory of Music faculty member Michael Adcock called Orchestra in a Piano: The Art of Transcription....read more
"Here's a motivation to get a kid to practice piano -- or other instrument -- if ever there was one: Work hard, and you'll get to go take music lessons in the park. And maybe, if you really nail "Für Elise," you can ride the carousel after class....read more
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