Adam Birnbaum

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Adam Birnbaum at the INNtöne Jazz Festival 2016

Adam Birnbaum (* 1979 in Boston ) is an American modern jazz musician ( piano , composition ) .

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Birnbaum grew up in Boston, where he had music lessons at an early age. He then studied piano at the Preparatory School of the New England Conservatory of Music and received a Bachelor of Arts in computer science from Boston College. In 2001 he was one of the first jazz studies students at the Juilliard School ; his teachers included Kenny Barron , Danilo Pérez and Fred Hersch . After graduating in 2003, he won the American Jazz Piano Competition in 2004 and received a Cole Porter fellow in jazz from the American Pianists Association .

Birnbaum came to New York in 2003 and has worked in the local jazz scene since then. a. with Greg Osby , Al Foster , Eddie Henderson , Carl Allen and Wynton Marsalis . He has also appeared in clubs in the city such as Village Vanguard , Blue Note , Birdland , Jazz Standard and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, as well as at international festivals such as the Gilmore Festival, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto . He also appeared as a soloist, as in 2004 as part of the Gilmore Rising Stars Recital Series in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 2006 he toured the Czech Republic with a solo concert program. In the same year he received the honorary award of the Martial Solal Competition in Paris. With a grant from Chamber Music America he wrote a commissioned composition for a jazz piano trio suite , which premiered in 2009.

In 2005 his debut album A Comme Amour (Pony Canyon, 2006) was released. The album Ballade pour Adeline , also released in Japan, was named one of the best albums of 2006 by the Swing Journal . In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 2003 and 2016, including a. also with Chris Madsen , Frank Basile , Sharel Cassity , Marshall Gilkes , Dick Oatts and Darcy James Argue .

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  1. ↑ a b Adam Birnbaum. Smalls, January 11, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 15, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Pear Tree, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston