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Contact Information
Location
Baltimore, Maryland
Early Music Skills & Interests
Conductor, Harpsichord, OrganEarly Music Affiliations
Conductor, Educator, Music/Artistic Director, Opera Director, Performer
Biography
Early keyboard specialist and music director Adam Pearl performs regularly throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South America and Asia as a soloist, and with many leading ensembles and orchestras. He is Assistant Professor of Harpsichord and Historical Performance at the Peabody Conservatory where he teaches harpsichord, coaches ensembles and singers, and teaches classes in continuo improvisation, baroque ornamentation, harpsichord tuning, and harpsichord literature. He directs the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble’s singers as well as Peabody’s baroque opera productions. He has recorded on the Chandos, Dorian and Plectra labels, including a solo recording of virtuosic works from the late French baroque released in 2018. Pearl earned the degrees of BM in piano performance and both MM and DMA in harpsichord performance, all from the Peabody Conservatory. He is a laureate of the 2001 Jurow and 2004 Bruges international harpsichord competitions. A lover of Baroque opera, Pearl has been music director for opera productions at Peabody, Yale, American Opera Theater, West Edge Opera, the Amherst Early Music Festival and others. From the keyboard, he has led staged performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, King Arthur, and The Fairy Queen; Blow’s Venus and Adonis; Cavalli’s La Calisto, La Didone, and Eliogabolo; Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea; Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione; Charpentier’s David & Jonathas, and La Descente d’Orphee aux Enfers, Reinhard Kaiser’s Pomona; and Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Semele, Messiah, Jephtha, Giulio Cesare and Alcina.
