Adam Frey - International Euphonium Soloist

Adam Frey travels the globe sharing his talents as a performer, teacher and advocate for live music and education. 

Adam has soloed with orchestras and bands the world over, including the world famous Boston Pops, Cheju Symphony Orchestra (South Korea), US Army Orchestra (Washington DC), Harvard Pops (MA), Fort Collins (CO), Indian Hill (MA), the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra (Finland), Atlanta Philharmonic (GA), Camerata Eleutheria (Argentina), Cascade (WA), Greensboro (NC), Clemson (SC), LaGrange (GA), Minot (ND), Bellevue Philharmonic (WA), and Northeastern (MA) Symphony Orchestras.  He also performs regularly with wind bands and brass bands that have included Soli Brass in Holland, Point of Ayr in Wales, the National Youth Brass Band of Switzerland and wind bands from Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, South Korea, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Russia, Finland, China, Germany, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Adam has been guest soloist at festivals around the globe, including four times at the Midwest Clinic (USA), the WASBE Convention (Singapore), Melbourne International Festival of Brass (Australia), Trombonanza (Argentina), Carlos Gomez Festival (Brazil), Jeju International Wind Festival (South Korea), Asia Pacific Band Directors Conference (South Korea), Westby Low Brass Workshop (Norway), Peru Low Brass Festival (Peru), Colombia Festubal (Colombia), Tubmania (Thailand), and Orquesta Latinoamericana de Vientos (Colombia) to name a few. 

 A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Adam Frey received his musical training at the University of Georgia, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the University of Salford.  As a major ambassador of the euphonium, Adam has more than one hundred and fifty works that have been composed or specifically arranged for him. Some composers and arrangers include Frank Gulino, Gail Robertson, Kevin Day, Barbara York, Kevin Kaska, Wan-Yun Liang, Jorge Tagliapetria, Patrick Hoffman, Allen Feinstein,  Jose Flores, Jim Self, Jiro Censhu, Tim Jansa, Matt Hightower, Camilio Ayala, Eduardo Nougerales, Fernando Deddos, and many more.

For 20 years, Adam has hosted the International Euphonium Tuba (IET) Festival at Emory University.  This event each June hosts more than 140 students and teachers from around the world in a week of playing, learning, and inspiration.  Participants range from high school and college students to adult amateurs.  More details at:  www.IETFestival.com  The festival promotes international involvement by offering scholarships through the Louder Fellowships to students from outside the US and has made awards to students from South Africa, China, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Malaysia and others.  

Adam Frey is Associate Professor at the University of North Georgia were he teachers undergraduate low brass students and is Director of Instrumental Studies.  We also teaches graduate students at Georgia State University.  Adam is currently serving as Vice-President/President-Elect for the International Tuba Euphonium Association and is only the 4th euphoniumist to be elected to lead the organization since its foundiner over 50 years ago.

He promotes a wide vareity of composers through two publishing companies that include composers like Kevin Day, Bruce Fraser, Yukiko Isomura, Tim Jasna, Andrew Hobsen, Fernando Morias, Jiro Censhu, Duncan MacMillian, Gail Robertson, Tim Olt, Silas Bareto, Ben Horne, and many more.

Adam Frey plays exclusively on the Yamaha YEP-842TS and an Ultimate Brass AF Model Mouthpiece.  Adam Frey has been a Yamaha Performing Artist and Guest Clinician since 2000!!