Enchanting
Sounds, LLC
Erika Lynn Adam, cellist and singer
Erika Lynn Adam is a freelance musician performing throughout the Baltimore and Washington, DC metropolitan areas. She has studied privately with cellists Cecylia Barczyk, and Ina-Esther Joost, and has also been coached by Andres Diaz, Jeffrey Solov, and others. Although her major instrument is the cello, Ms. Adam also has extensive experience as a soloist and chamber musician playing the violin, viola, and numerous historical instruments, and has studied operatic singing under Ah Matejicka and Leneida Crawford. While an undergraduate, she was the two-time winner of Towson University's Talent Award Competition, and served as principal cellist of the Towson University Orchestra from 1997 until 2001.
Since 1996, Ms. Adam has performed at hundreds of locations, including the National Basilica, Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium, the Peabody Institute of Music's Griswold Hall, Amherst College, Towson University, the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Western Maryland College, Roland Park Country School, St. Mary's College, and Cathedral St. Mary Our Queen.
Currently, Ms. Adam maintains a private teaching studio in the Baltimore area. She gives over fifty private music lessons weekly to pupils ranging from age three to adult. She is the owner of Enchanting Sounds, LLC, formed in 2003 to provide an outlet for the performance of solo and chamber music. In addition to this, she continues to perform as a soloist and ensemble player; she frequently appears with the Maryland Cello Ensemble, and has premiered many contemporary works in collaboration with the Baltimore Composers Forum. Ms. Adam plans to release a CD recording of works for solo cello in the future.