Philip Glass
Hans Zimmer
John Williams
Currently " Elegies: A Song Cycle"
Pink Floyd
Midnight Oil
U2
Collector of Film Soundtracks
Music Theatre
Movies
All things Star Wars
Most things involving Star Trek (except the original series - can't get into it)
Currently 'The Fountain' - very moving
A Collector of movies of different genres
Television
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
Heros
Simpsons
Thank God You're Here
The Fairies (of course!!)
Books
Haven't read a book for a long time.
The Magician series (Raymond E Feist)
Stephen Donaldson books
Issac Asimov books
Julian May (Many Coloured Land Series)
Adam trained as a primary teacher from 1988 and in 1991 he got his first full-time position as year 4-7 teacher at Lindisfarne Anglican Primary School. In 2000 he left teaching and started his Bachelor of Music degree for vocal performance at The Elder Conservatorium
In 2003 Adam completed his degree. That year, he studied in London with vocal coaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with a grant from Arts SA and in 2005 received a grant from the Helpmann Academy to study voice with renowned tenor Thomas Edmunds. During this time Adam went back to teaching, specialising in music at Woodcroft College years 6-10.
He has been involved with the State Opera Chorus for 8 years, making his opera debut as a principal in the role of Amon in The State Opera's production of Philip Glass's Opera, 'Akhnaten' (2002 and 2003). Since then, Adam has covered and performed the role of Nanki Poo (The Mikado) for Opera Australia, performed Benoit and Alcindoro (La Boheme), Gastone (La Traviata), Freddy (The Station), Goro (Madame Butterfly) for the State Opera of South Australia and Bastien ‘Bastien and Bastienna’ Opera Studio Program. This year, Adam has performed the role of Mahatma Gandhi in Philip Glass’s opera Satyagraha (State Opera/Adelaide Vocal Project and Leigh Warren & Dancers). The role earned him a Helpmann Award nomination for best male performer in an opera.
Adam is co-founder of SINGular Productions and recently produced their first project “I love you, you’re perfect, now change!” at the Opera Studio as part of the Fringe Festival, 2007.
Adam appears as Wizzy the Wizard in the successful television series ‘The Fairies’. Adam has been a proud member of Actors Equity since 2001.
You can also find me on FACEBOOK
Check out my theatre company's website: http://singularproduction.tripod.com/
Who I'd like to meet:
Gandhi (obviously more a fantasy than a reality!)
It wasn't long ago that I would dream of meeting people that I admired - and in some cases I actually got to meet them. I found that I would make the individual into some 'god-like' figure and would always be slightly disappointed when they didn't meet my expectations.
I find it hard to pin down exactly the people I would like to meet now. I have been fortunate in my career to have met some very interesting and inspiring people (both famous and not-so-famous). It would be my wish that these 'random' meetings continue - I enjoy the surprises.
Hey Adam! yeah same here!(lots of concerts not so much operas) :P but everyone is ok atm so heres hoping for a fantastic year! Happy New Year from the Kirby house :) Kat xoxoxo
