Teacher

Want to play the horn? Need help with your audition music?
Need relief from the day to day grind and want to be more creative?
Want advice about organizing your new project?

Available for Lessons and Beginner/Advanced Masterclasses, as well as individual Consultations.

Beginner:
***French Horn Pedagogy
***Basics of Brass Musicianship
Advanced:
***Marketing / Finding your Target Audience
***Promotional Ideas / Promoting Through Social Media
***Organizing an Original Product

Dr. Jacquelyn Adams received a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from SUNY Stony Brook in the Spring of 2011, capping off a unique and world-class education. After earning a bachelors degree from the Curtis Institute of Music (2003), a masters degree from Yale University (2005) and a D.M.A from SUNY Stony Brook (2011), Ms. Adams devoted much of 2009-2011 to teaching a Music Appreciation course at Lehman College (where she still performs with the Lehman College Faculty Woodwind Quintet) to over 150 undergrad, non-music majors. In the education process, she has studied with some of the world’s finest horn players- William Purvis, Myron Bloom, Jerome Ashby, Ann Ellsworth, Dr. William Scharnberg, Ellen Dinwiddie-Smith, Dr. Jim Irvin and Gregory Hustis.

An avid lover and promoter of chamber music, Jacquelyn was one of the four co-founders of Genghis Barbie (an all-star female horn quartet), with whom she toured and recorded the debut album “Genghis Barbie.” As a result, she had the opportunity to perform and lead masterclasses at the 2011 International Horn Symposium 43 (San Francisco), the NorthEast Horn Festival 2011 (New Hampshire), University of New Hampshire’s Summer Youth Music School (UNH, 2011), USDAN Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (NY), the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival (NYC) and other horn related events. Jacquelyn will be the featured guest artist at Canada’s Sixth “International Horn Day 2012″ in February at York University (Toronto, Canada), where she will perform and lead masterclasses at the festival and in surrounding areas.

Ms. Adams has taught french horn and trumpet privately in both New York and Texas. She has experience leading brass/mixed ensembles and has conducted the SUNY Stony Brook undergrad orchestra, for which she was the orchestral teaching assistant. Jacquelyn has been featured in various brass ensembles, brass quintets, woodwind quintets, horn quartets, mixed ensembles, electro-acoustic chamber ensembles and rock bands. She also composes and performs her own music.

What is it you are tying to do in the arts? Are you, or do you know, a student who could benefit from inspiration and encouragement?

Dr. Jacquelyn Adams is available to teach and consult in person or via SKYPE. Contact jacquelyn@jacquelynadams.com to discuss options, schedule a lesson and masterclass, or to simply say “hello.”