ADAM ZINATELLI

Accomplished as an orchestral player, soloist, and chamber musician, ADAM ZINATELLI is one of Canada’s most prominent young trumpet players. In February 2009, Mr. Zinatelli became Principal Trumpet of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the Banff Festival Orchestra, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, and l’Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, among others.

Adam was awarded second prize and the prize for the best performance of a Canadian work in the brass category at the 2008 Montreal Symphony Orchestra Standard Life Competition. He was awarded the 2008 Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award, and has been featured as a soloist with Symphony Hamilton, the Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble, and in a series of performances of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with the Glenn Gould Sinfonia under the direction of Jeanne Lamon. Adam has performed chamber music with the Artists of the Royal Conservatory Ensemble and the Toronto Chamber Brass, competing with the latter at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana. He has appeared in recital and chamber music performances at The Banff Centre, The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts’ Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Adam can be heard playing in the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra on recent broadcasts on CBC Radio, as well as on upcoming discs of works by Gershwin and Beethoven. Mr. Zinatelli’s current solo projects include newly commissioned pieces by Canadian composers William Rowson and Gabriel Dharmoo.

Mr. Zinatelli completed his undergraduate studies at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with Andrew McCandless, and studied at the Banff Centre with Canadian soloist Jens Lindemann. Adam pursued graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Michael Sachs, and now teaches trumpet at Mount Royal University in Calgary.