| Biography | James Adler is an American composer and pianist. Adler began his piano studies at age 10 with Elsie K. Brett. In 1967, Adler won the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions and made his debut with the orchestra in 1968. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music, receiving a Bachelor's Degree in piano performance in 1973 and a Master's Degree in composition in 1976,. He has appeared in recital on the CSO's Allied Arts Piano Series and performed in venues ranging from Alice Tully Hall and New York's Paramount Theatre at Madison Square Garden to London's Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall to the Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1996, his composition, Memento mori - An AIDS Requiem, was premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, and released in 2001. |