EventsThe New Social Environment#18

Adam Walker with George Grella

Featuring Walker and Grella

Thursday, April 9, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Musician Adam Walker joins Rail Music Editor George Grella for a conversation.

In this Talk

Adam Walker

At the forefront of a new generation of wind soloists, Adam Walker was appointed principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra in 2009 at the age of 21 and received the Outstanding Young Artist Award at MIDEM Classique in Cannes. In 2010 he won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award and was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Outstanding Young Artist Award. He performs internationally as a soloist with leading orchestras, and as chamber musician regularly appears at major concert venues and festivals. He is a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program artist. Adam studied at Chethams School of Music in Manchester, and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is professor of flute at London’s Royal College of Music.

George Grella

George Grella has been the Brooklyn Rail’s music editor since 2013. He has played jazz, classical, and improvisational music from CBGB to Carnegie Hall, has written about music and culture for over thirty years for print and online publications, and has contributed to the Grove Dictionary of Music, the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, the Financial Times, The Wire, Bandcamp, VAN, Music & Literature, The New York Classical Review, The Strad, The New York Times, and others. He publishes the Kill Yr Idols newsletter, and is the author of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew (Bloomsbury 2015).

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨