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Adam Burdick

Adjunct Instructor


Chamber Singers

aburdick@cornish.edu

A performer and conductor with a varied background, Adam Burdick, DMA, has conducted community choruses on the Olympic Peninsula, taught voice at Peninsula College, conducted opera and musical theatre productions at Shoreline Community College, and served as a long-time faculty member at the Midsummer Musical Retreat in Walla Walla. Burdick was co-founder of the Dusty Strings Music School and its Director for five years, where he developed the acoustic folk and world music school into a successful program. As a performer he has appeared in choral, opera, and musical theatre productions across the country, with favorite roles performed including Jesus in “Godspell” and both Nanki-Pooh and Ko-Ko in “The Mikado.”

He currently sings with Choral Arts, an a cappella vocal sextet. He has also assisted music director Stephen Stubbs with several Pacific Musicworks productions including Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, and Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. A graduate of the University of Puget Sound with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music and English Literature, an MM in Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington, Burdick’s doctoral dissertation was entitled “The Influence of French Baroque Dance on the Cantatas of J.S. Bach.”

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