London-based guitarist Adam Brown has performed throughout Europe, the United States and South America. Numbered among his many concert appearances are recitals at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall (NY), the 92nd St.Y-Tisch Center for the Performing Arts (NY), St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Wigmore Hall (London). He has also appeared at such renowned music festivals as Aspen (USA), Spoleto (Italy), Accademia Chigiana (Italy), Amsterdam International Guitar Festival (Holland), Bath International Guitar Festival (England) and the Musica y Danza Festival (Peru).

Performance highlights of the 2011 season included solo recitals at London’s Southbank Centre (Purcell Room), the Bath, Bermuda, Cheltenham and London International Guitar Festivals, the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and the International Guitar Festival at Kings Place in London.

The Rebels Within, Adam Brown’s first commercial solo album, was released in 2009 and features works by Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin, Nuccio D’Angelo and Lennox Berkeley. Gladios, his recently released second album, showcases works by prominent Latin American composers, including Lauro, Montes, Chavez, Piazzolla, Brouwer and Barrios. Adam’s current recording project, Without Limits-An American Century of Music for Guitar, will highlight the eclectic characteristics of contemporary music in the United States.

Born in Scotland, Adam Brown studied with Phillip Thorne at the City of Edinburgh Music School before starting studies with Carlos Bonell as a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music in London, where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree with Honours and received several prestigious awards. He continued his studies with Sharon Isbin at the Juilliard School in New York City, completing the Masters of Music degree and subsequently becoming the first guitarist to obtain Julliard’s distinguished Artist Diploma degree. He went on to earn a Doctorate in Musical Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he studied with the celebrated guitarists William Kanengiser and Pepe Romero.