User:Adam.cordle

Biography
Violist Adam Paul Cordle has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician in concert venues in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Indonesia, including Carnegie Hall's Weill and Zankel Halls. He performs with Duo590, Trio Alexander, the Suara Quartet, in duo partnerships with violinist Anyango Yarbo-Davenport and vocalist Susan Hochmiller, and serves as principal violist of the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra.

Cordle teaches individual lessons and coaches chamber music for students in south-central Pennsylvania. He serves on the faculty at Gettysburg College, where he coaches chamber music and teaches courses in the Music Education, Music Theory, and Music History divisions of the Sunderman Conservatory of Music. He directs the Cordle Studios Chamber Music Festival, coordinates the chamber music program for the Messiah College Orchestra Camp, teaches viola and chamber music at the Los Angeles Suzuki Institute, and coaches the viola sections for the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra. Cordle is a registered instructor with the Suzuki Association of the Americas.

Cordle's research examines the role of musical gesture in conceiving, interpreting, communicating, and perceiving performed music, focusing on the connection between the analysis and performance of musical gesture. He has applied analytical techniques and performance practices developed from this research to the music of Claude Debussy, Kaija Saariaho, and Toru Takemitsu, presenting this research at Claude Debussy in 2018 and at the Performance Studies International Conference in 2016.

He actively promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in music through research, commissioning, and programming. With Duo590, he has developed the project Perspectives Françaises, several programs of music by French women composers including Marcelle Soulage, Fernande Decruck, and his own arrangements of works by Lili and Nadia Boulanger and Pauline Viardot. With his colleagues in Trio Alexander, he continually strives toward gender and racial parity in programming, commissioning, arranging, and research.

Cordle currently serves as a board member for the American Viola Society. He directs If Music Be the Food… Gettysburg, a benefit concert series designed to support the hunger relief efforts of the Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen, and Music for All, a community engagement program placing young musicians in local schools and community centers to discuss and perform chamber music. He has previously served as a the treasurer of the OSSIA New Music Collective.

Adam Paul Cordle holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance & Literature with minors in Music Theory and Pedagogy from the Eastman School of Music. He earned the Bachelor of Music in Performance & Literature from Baldwin Wallace University, where he graduated magna cum laude.