Adam Grossmanand The Master Singers of Lexington have continuedand expanded their joint mission of bringing superb choral music to Lexington,becoming well known for eclectic programs and stylistic versatility. TheMaster Singers perform staples of the choral repertoire by composers such asBach, Schumann, Mozart, and Brahms, but also enlivens concerts with inventiveprogramming, expanding the repertoire with less familiar works and new music,especially from local composers. The Master Singers have commissioned andpremiered new works by William Bolcom, Whitman Brown, Sara Doncaster, Allen Feinstein, Adam Grossman, Rodney Lister, Pamela Marshall, Thomas Stumpf, Pasquale Tassone, and Michael Weinstein. Other contemporarycomposers whose works The Master Singers have performed include Newell Hendricks, Arvo Pärt, Ned Rorem, and Yehud Wyner. In addition to performingat First Parish and Follen Church in Lexington, The Master Singers have sung inBoston at Old South Meeting House, at Williams Hall and Jordan Hall at theNew England Conservatory of Music, at Boston College, and in Bedford at theFirst Parish Unitarian Church. The Master Singers have also performed at CaryHall with the Lexington Sinfonietta and in Boston’s Faneuil Hall with the BostonClassical Orchestra. Since 1996, The Master Singers have shared programs withsome of the area’s finest freelancers and most prominent instrumentalists,including the Boston Composer’s String Quartet and the Massachusetts Flute Choir, accordionist Katherine Matasy, guitarist John Muratore, violinist Frank Powdermaker, saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky, horn player Jean Rife, English horn player Robert Sheena, pianists Thomas Stumpf and Eric Mazonson, cellistRhonda Rider, and recorder player John Tyson, among others. The MasterSingers have performed annual, free Children’s Concerts since 1999. They havebeen held at four different schools in Lexington, and now include participationby choruses from the Lexington Public Schools.

In addition to his work with The Master Singers, Adam Grossman is on thefaculty of the All Newton Music School and the New England ConservatoryPreparatory Department. He was formerly the Music Director of the CambridgeSymphony Orchestra and conductor of The Boston Cecilia Chamber Singers.He has been a guest conductor for The Boston Cecilia, Dinosaur Annex NewMusic Ensemble, the Lexington Sinfonietta, Symphony by the Sea, and the Longy Summer Orchestra, and has conducted Youth and Pops concerts with theNewton, Wellesley, and New Philharmonia Orchestras. He has appeared three times at the Warebrook (Vt.) Festival for Contemporary Music, and in the fall of1999 was Artist in Residence and Conductor of the Brandeis University Chorus.He has conducted more than forty premieres, including works by William Bolcom, Peter Lieberson, Rodney Lister, Joyce Mekeel, and Marjorie Merryman, as wellas local premieres by Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Finnissey, and Richard Felciano. In 2006 he conducted the first performance of Abigail Al-Doory’s Tonya & Nancy: The Opera, and in 2007 conducted the Central MassachusettsJunior District Festival Orchestra. As a composer, Adam Grossman’s works havebeen performed by such orchestras as the Cambridge Symphony; the Newton, Wellesley, Brockton, and Waltham Symphonies; the Symphony Pro Musica; the NEC Youth Repertory Orchestra; the North Shore Philharmonic; the New Philharmonia Orchestra; the Northeastern University Concert Band; the Tufts University Chorale; the Zamir Chorale of Metropolitan Detroit; the Vocal ArtsEnsemble of Ann Arbor, Mich.; and The Master Singers.