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 Adam Rhys Davies BMus Hons.
Drummer and Percussionist
“Adam's playing is of the highest level and whenever I need a percussionist to play something intricate he's on my 'first call list'.”
Dr Robert Childs, Musical Director, Composer and Arranger. Adam is an Alternate Mode Inc. artist and will be using the malletKAT MIDI Controller on UK Production’s national tour of ‘South Pacific’. Regularly freelancing all over the country, Adam’s professional experiences are many and varied. Operatic and theatrical work includes: ‘Paradise Moscow’, ‘Rochester’s Second Bottle’ (world premier), ‘Oklahoma’, ‘Fame’, ‘Hello Dolly’, ‘Guys and Dolls’, ‘Les Miserable’, ‘The Secret Garden’ (Welsh premier), ‘All 4 One’ (Welsh premiers) and may more. Live/studio recording sessions for television and radio include: BBC, S4C and numerous bands, most recently Veroda Client, an Irish based rock band currently mixing their soon to be released debut album and touring the U.K. Adam was also percussionist for The Bluesy Susie Band, a group specializing in jazz, fusion and contemporary pop, with performances in some of the country’s top venues/festivals including Ronnie Scotts and Brecon Jazz, as well as noticeable appearances on BBC Radio and Television. Adam has also worked with the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, Bristol Choral Society (under Adrian Partington), and performed in numerous venues including St. David’s Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff International Arena, Symphony Hall, Royal Albert and The Grieg Hall. Adam has also performed extensively with the Cory Band, one of most highly ranked competing brass bands of all time, and performed in their premier performance of Dr. John Pickard’s ‘Gaia Symphony’, the first ever symphonic work written for brass band. No stranger to working live and recording to click, Adam is also first-call drummer for ‘The Olympic’, a Cardiff based rock band who have just released their debut album ‘Again, Again’ Again’.
Adam is former member of the National Youth Brass Band and Wind Orchestra of Wales and in 2005, Adam was invited to perform at the official opening ceremony of the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, with the National Youth Symphonic Brass of Wales; a select group consisting of some of the finest past members of all Welsh national ensembles.
Adam is also an accomplished bass guitarist, composer and arranger, and in 2001, at the age of seventeen, composed, arranged and conducted the premier performance of ‘Noah’, a short rock-cantata that involved over five hundred primary and secondary school children accompanied by a live seven piece band.
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