Adam Kissel

Trombone

 

Countryside High School, Clearwater, FL: Studied with Joe Stegemann and Ernest Passoja.

Harvard College: Studied (a little) with Tom Everett.

University of Chicago: Studied with Joe Stegemann.

 

Positions:

  • Drill Master and Executive Board, Harvard University Band, 1992-93.
  • Manager, Harvard Wind Ensemble, 1991-92.

 

Awards:

  • Stephen MacDiarmid Award, Harvard University, 1990.
  • Malcolm Holmes Scholarship, Harvard University, 1990.
  • Hayward Scholarship, Harvard University, 1991, 1992, 1993.
  • Music Lesson Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1997-98.

 

Performances 2004-05:

  • H/R Gilbert & Sullivan Players.
  • Lowell House Opera: Don Giovanni.
  • Dunster House Opera: Candide.
  • Loeb Mainstage: Carousel.
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
  • Harvard POPS.
  • Dudley House Orchestra.
  • Mozart Society Orchestra.
  • Harvard Summer Pops Band (2004).

Weddings:

  • Cammie (O’Connor) Wynn, Cambridge, MA
  • Mark Bagley and Christine Cochran, St. Louis, MO

Performances 1990-97:

  • Lowell House Opera--A Quiet Place, The Magic Flute, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, et al.
  • Dunster House Opera--Tales of Hoffman, Carmen, et al.
  • Mozart Society Orchestra.
  • Bach Society Orchestra.
  • Harvard University Band (seven years). Conducted on occasion by Quincy Jones and Seiji Ozawa (June 2000).
  • Harvard Jazz Band (played with Joshua Redman).
  • Harvard Sunday Jazz Band.
  • H/R Gilbert & Sullivan Players (seven years).
  • Little Orchestra of Cambridge.
  • Harvard Wind Ensemble (five years).
  • Boston Bar Association Orchestra.
  • Harvard Summer Pops Band.
  • Harvard Summer School Orchestra.
  • Loeb Mainstage: Dreamgirls.
  • Dudley House Orchestra.
  • Harvard Brass Ensemble.
  • "Radcliffe Band."
  • And more ... I can't remember them all

 

Paid Performances:

  • Winter Wonder Brass.
  • Might play for food.