A Philadelphia native, Adam Lesnick, received his Bachelors and Masters in horn performance from Juilliard. He has been a member of the Richmond Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Opera Philadelphia, Orchestra 2001, Philadelphia Ballet, and Philly Pops, and performed as a substitute musician with the New York Philharmonic and Pittsburgh Symphony, and for three decades with the Philadelphia Orchestra including 11 foreign tours. Adam was a member of the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Peter Britt Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Bear Valley Festival, and for nine summers with the Spoleto Festival USA and Italy.
Adam has appeared as soloist with the Chamber Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Orchestra 2001, and Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and taught horn at Princeton and University of Pennsylvania. A Fulbright Senior Music Researcher at Cairo Conservatory, Egypt (1999) and University of Delhi, India (2000), he also served as Executive Director for the American Composers Forum Philadelphia, and founded International Opus, a music publishing company featuring ethnically diverse composers of classical music.
For 15 years, Adam has served as Executive Director of Orchestra 2001 (O2001), a local contemporary music ensemble that has toured to rural Appalachia, the Navajo Nation, and HBCU’s in the US South; and overseas to Cuba, China, Hong Kong, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. In addition to dozens of local premieres by contemporary classical composers, the ensemble presented the American premiere of Frank Zappa’s complete “The Yellow Shark” by Frank Zappa, and the Philadelphia premiere of the iconic Miles Davis/Gil Evans “Birth of the Cool.”
