Adam Roszkiewicz

Adam began playing the guitar at age 7, but quit after a few lessons. Inspired by Mississippi John Hurt, Tom Petty, and his father's shiny new Fender Stratocaster, he went at it again when he was 12. This time he had a competent teacher: his Dad. Not long after a friend from a local music store gave Adam a Tony Rice album and the seeds of Bluegrass were sewn. Based in the Bay Area, Adam performs Bluegrass, folk and new acoustic music on guitar, mandolin, and mandocello. Adam has performed at the Icicle Creek music festival in Washington, the Mozart festival in San Luis Obispo, and the Hardly-Strictly-Bluegrass festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Adam is a member of the Modern Mandolin Quartet, and performs regularly with the group Jimmy Chickenpants, and singer-songwriter AJ Roach. In addition to Bluegrass guitar, Adam is also an experienced Classical guitarist. He has earned his undergraduate and graduate diplomas in music performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with David Tanenbaum and Marc Teicholz. In March 2005, he made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing guitar duets with Santiago Gutierrez.