Mariam Adam, a native of Monterey, California has become an internationally distinguished clarinetist and chamber musician. Chosen to be one of the last students of legendary clarinetist, Rosario Mazzeo, she developed a colorful career on the west coast appearing with the Sacramento Symphony, Monterey County Symphony and several others while still an undergraduate. She participated with the Eastman Music Summer Festival, toured with various jazz ensembles, sometimes as the drummer, in Japan and North America and received such awards such as the Hans Wildau Young Musicians Award, Sacramento Concerto Competition Winner, AFS Scholar, Bank of America Artists Scholar before moving to the east coast for graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music with David Krakauer.
She has since performed with Chamber Music Lincoln Center, Prussia Cove Festival in England, 92nd St. Y, Rockport Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, La Jolla Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest as well as with Paquito D Rivera, Yo-Yo Ma and David Shifrin.
Since 1997 she has been the clarinetist for Grammy-nominated IMANI WINDS, an eclectic woodwind quintet that has played continually in every major concert hall in North America and abroad. Their notoriety as an exciting ensemble has credited them with bringing the woodwind quintet back into mainstream chamber music as well as...
Mariam Adam, a native of Monterey, California has become an internationally distinguished clarinetist and chamber musician. Chosen to be one of the last students of legendary clarinetist, Rosario Mazzeo, she developed a colorful career on the west coast appearing with the Sacramento Symphony, Monterey County Symphony and several others while still an undergraduate. She participated with the Eastman Music Summer Festival, toured with various jazz ensembles, sometimes as the drummer, in Japan and North America and received such awards such as the Hans Wildau Young Musicians Award, Sacramento Concerto Competition Winner, AFS Scholar, Bank of America Artists Scholar before moving to the east coast for graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music with David Krakauer.
She has since performed with Chamber Music Lincoln Center, Prussia Cove Festival in England, 92nd St. Y, Rockport Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, La Jolla Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest as well as with Paquito D Rivera, Yo-Yo Ma and David Shifrin.
Since 1997 she has been the clarinetist for Grammy-nominated IMANI WINDS, an eclectic woodwind quintet that has played continually in every major concert hall in North America and abroad. Their notoriety as an exciting ensemble has credited them with bringing the woodwind quintet back into mainstream chamber music as well as breaking traditional barriers in repertoire.
As a founding member of the internationally acclaimed, TransAtlantic Ensemble she has performed through Europe and the east coast performing a wide range of music including that of Imani Winds Jeff Scott and VColeman.
Both the Transatlantic Ensemble and Imani Winds can be heard on Koch Classics/E1 Music.
