Interview with Adam Glaser

Adam Glaser is the Music Director of the professional-caliber Juilliard Pre-College Orchestras and Director of Orchestras and Associate Professor of Music at Hofstra University. In the 2025/26 season, he begins his third year as Music Director and Conductor of Long Island’s renowned South Shore Symphony. Recent engagements include the New Jersey Symphony, where Glaser filled in last-minute for Music Director Xian Zhang in critically-acclaimed subscription concerts featuring violinist Hilary Hahn, Musical America’s 2023 Artist of the Year. In the 2024/25 season, he served as Visiting Professor of Conducting and Interim Director of Orchestras at the Hartt School of Music. An established composer, Glaser’s works have been performed by 50 orchestras throughout the U.S. and Canada, including the orchestras of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Utah, Vancouver, Illinois and Toronto. Commissions include his Passacaglia for string orchestra, Launch for orchestra and chorus, and an arrangement of Hatikvah for string orchestra and children’s chorus. Profoundly committed to arts education and community engagement, Glaser is the creator and host of The Composer’s Paintbrush, a series in which he leads audiences through an exploration of the creative techniques behind musical masterworks, previously presented by New York’s Morgan Library & Museum. Glaser earned graduate degrees in orchestral conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Michigan, an MBA from the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan), a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in English, Afro-American Studies and Music, and a diploma in composition from the Juilliard Pre-College Division. His primary conducting teachers include Otto-Werner Mueller and Kenneth Kiesler, and his master class teachers include Christoph Eschenbach, Helmut Rilling and Gianluigi Gelmetti. For more information, please visit www.adamglaser.com