Adam Burdick, Tenor

Adam Burdick, Tenor, is an active singer, music director, and music educator in the Seattle area. He is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound (BA Music, BA English Literature), the U niversity of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (MM Choral Conducting), and the University of Washington (DMA Choral Conducting). He founded the Dusty Strings Music School, offering instruction in acoustic folk and world music for students of all ages in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. He continues to oversee the school’s twenty-six private lesson instructors and plans its extensive class and workshop program. He also directs and sings in the Dusty Strings Singers, a small (mostly unaccompanied) vocal ensemble.

Adam led community choruses on the Olympic Peninsula for several years in a variety of musical endeavors, and taught voice and music appreciation at Peninsula College and at the Music Center of the Northwest. More recent projects include work with Pacific Musicworks, creating and running supertitles for workshop performances and for the 2009 production of Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria. He is now acting as production manager for Pacific Musicworks’ upcoming (March) production in collaboration with the Seattle Chamber Players and On the Boards.

As a performer, he has appeared in choral, operatic, and musical theatre productions across the country, with some favorite roles being Jesus in Godspell, and Nanki-Pooh and Ko-Ko (in different productions, of course!) in The Mikado. Adam now sings as a soloist in the Puget Sound area and with Choral Arts in Seattle, and has begun to explore Baroque opera, with two recent appearances in the summer workshop, the Accademia of Baroque Opera.

Adam’s many musical interests include study of effective teaching (including comprehensive music education) as well as opera, musical theatre, popular music, and the Alexander Technique. But when not immersed in music, he enjoys travel, gardening, reading, cooking, yoga/tai chi/stretching/meditation, being at, on, or in the water, and spending time with family and friends.