Merynda Adams Biography

 

 

Ms. Adams, harpist, made her New York debut to a sold out Carnegie Recital Hall as a 1994 winner of the Artists International Competition. She has been described by the Newark Star Ledger as having “played the harp with color and great facility”. She is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the Metropolitan area.

 

Ms. Adams is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music where she was a merit scholarship student of Kathleen Bride. Her other teachers have included Sara Bullen and Gloria Agostini.

 

Ms. Adams has performed with New York Grand Opera, New Philharmonic, Plainfield Symphony, Metro Lyric Opera, Lyrica Chamber Music, Opera at Florham, Northeastern Philharmonic, Colonial Symphony, Westfield Symphony, Lake Placid Sinfonietta and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. A winner of the South Orange Symphony Artists’ Competition and the Goldblatt Award she has performed at Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall and off Broadway in the “The Fantasticks”.

 

Ms. Adams has studied at the Hilversumse Conservatorium in the Netherlands with Erika Waardenburg and in 1998 was in Paris performing in a master class with Paris Opera Orchestra harpist, Catherine Michel.

In addition to an active teaching studio, she is an Affiliate Artist Teacher at Drew University and has been an instructor of harp at Seton Hall University. Ms. Adams was a founding member and vice-president of the North Jersey chapter of the American Harp Society. She is featured in the book, “Plaza Weddings” playing at the weddings of Donald Trump and Eddie Murphy. Her other solo engagements include events honoring Colin Powell, Beverly Sills and Andrea Bocelli. Currently, she is collaborating with Colonial Symphony and Morristown Memorial Hospital to take music to the patients in the hospital setting. Her solo recording is available at www.Merynda.com.