David Adams, formerly Leader of the Ulster
Orchestra is now Leader of the Orchestra of Welsh National
Opera. He has been Co-Artistic Director of the Goldberg
Ensemble since 2003, and was tutor in violin at Royal Northern
College of Music from 2000 to 2006.
Equally at home on violin and viola he has
been a member of the Raphael Ensemble and Ovid Ensemble and now
makes regular guest appearances with the Nash Ensemble, Endellion
String Quartet, Gould Piano Trio and Hebrides Ensemble.
As leader of the Ulster Orchestra, David
performed concertos and directed performances from the violin, and
will continue to pursue these roles with the Orchestra of the Welsh
National Opera. David recorded the Beethoven String Quintets with
the Endellion Quartet for Warner Classics in 2008 and has made
several recordings with the Gould Piano Trio and Nash Ensemble.
David began his studies at the age of five
with his father, principal viola in the Halle Orchestra. He
continued his training with Malcolm Layfield at Chetham’s School of
Music and the Royal Northern College of Music and then in the USA
with Zvi Zeitlin and Daniel Phillips.