H. Leslie Adams
American Composer
Composer of instrumental, vocal solo and keyboard.
H. Leslie Adams Official Website
Announcements:
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, in Southern Colorado will perform Nightsongs for voice and orchestra, in the new edition just published, Feb. 18 and 19, 2022.
Amazing Grace with words and music by H. Leslie Adams is featured on the Grammy nominated album of African American art songs with Will Liverman and Paul Sanchez, on Cedille, 2021.
The CIM Opera Theater fundraiser event of Nov. 5 & 6 2021 "Celebrating a Century of Singing at CIM" - program closed with a performance of "Prayer" from Nightsongs, for chamber orchestra and soloist Trey Floyd.
Artists from Mirror Visions Ensemble performed a full program of songs at Hendricks Chapel in Syracuse as part of their "This Land is Ours" Series. The concert took place on October 3, 2021. Works performed included commissioned works from Francine Trester, H. Leslie Adams, Mohammed Fairouz, Adolphus Hailstork, Carlos Simon, and Harold Meltzer.
Adams is presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by the Marquis Who's Who, 2021.
Music by H. Leslie Adams presented by the AGO Cleveland chapter, Sept. 26, 2021. "Grand March" for Trumpet and Piano was performed by Etienne Massicotte, trumpet and Nicole DiPaolo, piano; Rocky River United Methodist Church, Rocky River, Ohio. Thank you to American Guild of Organists, Cleveland chapter.
Feb. 2021 - Cleveland Orchestra Martin Luther King Celebration: Adams' "L'extase D'Amour" Eliesha Nelson, viola; Dianna White-Gould, piano.
To order individual selections from Adams' opera Blake, click: www.composers.com/h-leslie-adams
For information on entire Blake score,
click: www.BlackTeaMusic.com
then click "Works represented--opera"
