Violinist Adam von Housen made his New York recital debut in Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in May 2013 shortly before moving to New York City. Currently based in NYC, Adam received his Master's Degree and Artist Diploma from Brooklyn College, where he studied violin with Masao Kawasaki and chamber music with Ursula Oppens and Adam Kent. He served as Co-Concertmaster of the Brooklyn College Conservatory Orchestra for 3 years and has performed as a section violinist with many orchestras around the NYC area including The Chelsea Symphony, New England Symphonic Ensemble, Astoria Symphony, and the NY Asian Cultural Symphony, and he has performed with orchestras for opera companies including Manhattan Opera Studio, Apotheosis Opera, Regina Opera, and New Opera NYC. Adam also frequently performs with Symphoria of Syracuse and is a member of the MostArts Festival Orchestra during the summer. He can also be seen in the orchestra of the final episode of Amazon Prime’s series Mozart in the Jungle. As a concertmaster, he has led Richmond County Orchestra, Westchester Oratorio Society Orchestra, Hellenic Music Foundation Orchestra, New Rochelle Opera, Golden Rose Opera, and CUNY Graduate Center Contemporary Ensemble. Other orchestras in which he has held leadership positions include New Amsterdam Opera Orchestra, Martha Cardona Opera Orchestra, and the 2019 Beethoven 250th Celebration Orchestra in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall under the direction of conductor Gerard Schwartz. He has appeared as a soloist with The Chelsea Symphony, NY Asian Cultural Symphony, NY Session Symphony, Richmond County Orchestra, and New Westchester Symphony Orchestras, performing concerti by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens, and Vivaldi, and concert pieces by Dvorak, Ravel, Vaughn Williams, and John Williams. Aside from Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, other venues around NYC in which Adam has performed include Alice Tully and David Geffen Halls at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Bargemusic, National Sawdust, the United Nations headquarters, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Adam is passionate about working with composers and is highly active in the NYC contemporary music scene. While at Brooklyn College, Adam regularly performed with the conservatory contemporary ensemble, and in 2015 he received the Robert Starer Performance Award for outstanding performance of contemporary music at BC. Since 2014 he has been a core member of the Curiosity Cabinet, a contemporary ensemble under the direction of composer and conductor Whitney George. With the Curiosity Cabinet, Adam has performed in a variety of venues such as National Sawdust, the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University for the 2016 New Music Gathering, and the Brooklyn nightclub House of YES, where Adam was a featured performer in a collaborative performance with New Camerata Opera and the Curiosity Cabinet. Adam has performed with the CUNY Graduate Center contemporary ensemble and was also a featured performer on the Groupwork composers series as a part of the 2018 Composers Now Festival. Other NYC new music series appearances include Sound Traffic, Concrete Timbre, and the Parlour Room Sessions at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Prior to relocating to NYC, Adam was based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he grew up. He graduated magna cum laude from Kennesaw State University in May 2012, where he studied with Helen Hwaya Kim. While at KSU, he was winner of the 2010 School of Music Concerto Competition, which led to him performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the KSU Symphony Orchestra. He also appeared as soloist with the KSU Philharmonic Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, Adam served as concertmaster of the KSU Symphony Orchestra for 4 years. He also served as Guest Principal Second Violin with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the Savannah Philharmonic, Rome (Georgia) Symphony, Gadsden (Alabama) Symphony, North Georgia Symphony, and Carroll Symphony Orchestras. During the summer of 2010, Adam served as Principal Violist in the pit orchestra of the world premier production of "I Dream" under the direction of Keith Williams and Grammy-nominated composer and arranger Carl Marsh. While residing in Atlanta, venues in which Adam performed include Spivey Hall, Atlanta Symphony Hall and the Alliance Theater at Woodruff Arts Center, Cobb Energy Center, and Savannah Civic Center, with additional performances during this time period in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and China at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and Xi’an Concert Hall.
As an educator, Adam has been active since 2004, leading sectionals for middle and high school orchestras, coaching youth orchestra violin sections, coaching chamber groups, and teaching violin and viola privately. From 2008 to 2011, he served as a chamber ensemble coach each summer at the Kennesaw State University Summer Music Intensive, and he also served as a coach for the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as a guest coach for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York.
Adam is passionate about working with composers and is highly active in the NYC contemporary music scene. While at Brooklyn College, Adam regularly performed with the conservatory contemporary ensemble, and in 2015 he received the Robert Starer Performance Award for outstanding performance of contemporary music at BC. Since 2014 he has been a core member of the Curiosity Cabinet, a contemporary ensemble under the direction of composer and conductor Whitney George. With the Curiosity Cabinet, Adam has performed in a variety of venues such as National Sawdust, the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University for the 2016 New Music Gathering, and the Brooklyn nightclub House of YES, where Adam was a featured performer in a collaborative performance with New Camerata Opera and the Curiosity Cabinet. Adam has performed with the CUNY Graduate Center contemporary ensemble and was also a featured performer on the Groupwork composers series as a part of the 2018 Composers Now Festival. Other NYC new music series appearances include Sound Traffic, Concrete Timbre, and the Parlour Room Sessions at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Prior to relocating to NYC, Adam was based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he grew up. He graduated magna cum laude from Kennesaw State University in May 2012, where he studied with Helen Hwaya Kim. While at KSU, he was winner of the 2010 School of Music Concerto Competition, which led to him performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the KSU Symphony Orchestra. He also appeared as soloist with the KSU Philharmonic Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, Adam served as concertmaster of the KSU Symphony Orchestra for 4 years. He also served as Guest Principal Second Violin with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the Savannah Philharmonic, Rome (Georgia) Symphony, Gadsden (Alabama) Symphony, North Georgia Symphony, and Carroll Symphony Orchestras. During the summer of 2010, Adam served as Principal Violist in the pit orchestra of the world premier production of "I Dream" under the direction of Keith Williams and Grammy-nominated composer and arranger Carl Marsh. While residing in Atlanta, venues in which Adam performed include Spivey Hall, Atlanta Symphony Hall and the Alliance Theater at Woodruff Arts Center, Cobb Energy Center, and Savannah Civic Center, with additional performances during this time period in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and China at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and Xi’an Concert Hall.
As an educator, Adam has been active since 2004, leading sectionals for middle and high school orchestras, coaching youth orchestra violin sections, coaching chamber groups, and teaching violin and viola privately. From 2008 to 2011, he served as a chamber ensemble coach each summer at the Kennesaw State University Summer Music Intensive, and he also served as a coach for the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as a guest coach for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York.