Adam Pendleton
 

Adam Pendleton has enjoyed a successful early career as a concert saxophonist.  He is an active recitalist, clinician, adjudicator, and chamber musician, and has received numerous invitations for regional and national conferences, meetings, and seminars for organizations such as the North American Saxophone Alliance, the World Saxophone Congress, the U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, and several collegiate new and electro-acoustic music festivals.  He has appeared in several important music centers including Carnegie-Weill Recital Hall, Severence Hall, Spivey Hall The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and The University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium.

Mr. Pendleton was the grand Prize winner of the Northeast Arkansas Symphony Concerto Competition and the Winner of the Western Illinois University Concerto Competition.  He was the First Prize Winner in the Young Performers Competition of Sigma Alpha Iota, and the Grand Prize (ALEX) award winner in the National Alliance for Excellence Artists’ Program.

Pendleton is aggressively engaged in the commissioning of new works for the saxophone in order to broaden the scope of the instrument’s contemporary repertoire.  Current and past commissions include works by both well known and up-and-coming composers.  As a member of the WWCPCF Consortium, he has performed the premieres of works by the Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Gunther Schuller, and Prix de Rome winner Larry Thomas Bell.  Other premieres and commissions include works of William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, Rebecca Michalak, Thomas Riley, Paul Miles, Dwane Milburn, Gordon Green, Albert Ahlstrom, and Jonathan Creal. 

He has served as the Director of the Saxophone Program for the Michigan All-State Program at The Interlochen Academy, and as the Co-Director of the Advanced Saxophone Workshops at Western Illinois University, and joined the faculty of the Georgia State University School of Music in the fall of 2004.  From 2003 to 2006 Pendleton served as the principal saxophonist and saxophone soloist with the Army Ground Forces Band in Atlanta, GA.  Mr. Pendleton holds degrees in saxophone performance from The University of Michigan and Western Illinois University.  His teachers have included John Vana, Timothy McAllister, and Donald Sinta. He is a consultant, clinician, and plays exclusively on Fibracell^TM Reeds.

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