Bassoonist Adrian Morejon has been praised for his “teeming energy”
and “precise control” by the New York Times and having “every note
varnished to a high gloss” by the Boston Globe. As a soloist, he has
appeared throughout the US and Europe with the Talea Ensemble, IRIS
Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), and the Miami
Symphony. He will be featured in a recording of Joan Tower’s Bassoon
Concerto, Red Maple, to be released by BMOP/Sound in 2022.
An active chamber musician, Adrian is a member of the Dorian Wind
Quintet, Talea Ensemble, and Radius Ensemble. He has appeared with such
groups as the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, the International
Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Imani
Winds, Alarm Will Sound, and as a guest artist with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, the Boston Chamber Music Society, Chamber
Music Northwest, and the Essex Winter Series.
An experienced orchestral musician, Adrian is co-principal of IRIS
Orchestra and has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the
Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project (BMOP), the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and others. He
was a recipient of Theodore Presser Foundation Grant, 2nd prize of the
Fox-Gillet International Competition, and a shared top prize at the
Moscow Conservatory International Competition.
Adrian has participated in many other festivals, including the
Composer’s Conference at Brandeis University, Chesapeake Chamber Music
Festival, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Apple Hill Center for
Chamber Music Summer Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, the Portland
Chamber Music Festival, and the Monadnock Music Festival. An alum of the
Curtis Institute and Yale School of Music, Adrian is currently on the
faculty at SUNY Purchase College, CUNY Brooklyn College and CUNY Hunter
College. He has been performing at SLLMF since 2016.
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