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BIOGRAPHY
Merynda 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. She has been the principle
harpist of The Orchestra at William Paterson University for the past
decade and has performed frequently on the Lyrica Concert Series.
Additionally, Ms. Adams has performed with New York Grand Opera, New
Philharmonic, Plainfield Symphony, Metro Lyric Opera, Opera at Florham
and the Northeastern Philharmonic. A winner of the South Orange
Symphony Artists' Competition and the Goldblatt Award, she has
appeared at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium, Avery Fisher
Hall, and off Broadway in "The Fantastics." 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. She is featured in the book, "Plaza Weddings," playing at
the weddings of
Donald Trump
and
Eddie Murphy.
Her other engagements include events honoring
Colin Powell,
Beverly Sills
and
Andrea Bocelli.
Her most recent project was a solo recording set released in Fall
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