adam wernick
Adam Wernick has been a sought-after composer, arranger and sound designer for twenty-five years.
Particularly known for his theatrical collaborations, his work has been heard in many venues throughout the country, including The Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Denver Center Theater Company, Manhattan Theater Club, The Kennedy Center, The Royal Shakespeare Company and many others.
He has worked with many prominent directors, including Michael Kahn, Joe Dowling, Jonathan Munby, Garland Wright, Bill Alexander, Gale Edwards, Paul Whitworth, Jesse Berger, P.J. Paparelli, Daniel Fish, Jiri Zizka and Blanka Zizka.
His commissioned concert works include chamber music, concerti, and works for voice and orchestra. His works have been performed by The Twenty-First Century Consort, Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, American Composers Forum and others.
Composer
Contact: a_wernick@yahoo.com
A classically-trained composer and performer, Adam brings a unique combination of craft and artistry to his theater writing. He is widely respected for his ability to compose compelling, theatrically fitting music in any genre and style - classical, jazz, rock/pop, electronica, Javanese gamelan, Russian balalaika, Japanese kabuki, American musical theater - even Austrian yodeling. Philadelphia theater critic Douglas Keating wrote of Adam’s contribution to Mum Pupptheatre’s Seance: “Wernick’s music is remarkably evocative...Richly conceived, the score includes dream-like trills for flute, mournful cello passages and soaring vocals. It invariably finds the feeling of the scene.”
In addition, he brings a strong sense of theatricality to his concert works. Music critic Daniel Webster, writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote of Adam’s oboe concerto, Mourning Sea: “The writing for oboe, realized with such illumination by Richard Woodhams, suggested a theatrical figure passing across stages set with subtle but imposing images... through finely colored scenes so full of mood that the solo oboe seemed an operatic figure.”
Adam's work has been supported by grants from The McKnight Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Independence Foundation, The Philadelphia Music Project, The Presser Foundation, The Henson Foundation and ASCAP.
He received a B.A. in Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
After many years of living in Philadelphia, Adam now lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with his wife and two daughters.