Adam Millstein

Adam Millstein is a violinist who is developing a multifaceted career as a performer, lecturer, and music curator with a passion for uncovering overlooked masterpieces of the 20th century. He is currently pursuing his DMA at UCLA in violin performance studying with Varty Manouelian and Movses Pogossian.

Millstein is the Program Director of the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices at the Colburn School. The purpose of this initiative is to promote and perform music by composers whose lives and works were suppressed as a result of Nazi policies from 1933-1945. Adam spearheaded the Initiative’s Schulhoff and More! Project: a unique online series focused on the life and music of Recovered Voices composer Erwin Schulhoff. He curated, performed, and organized filmed recordings of Schulhoff ’s music. The critically acclaimed album Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff on the Delos Label was made from these recordings.

Millstein has had the great honor to work extensively with internationally renowned conductor Maestro James Conlon, Music Director of the LA Opera and the Artistic Director of Recovered Voices. He recently appeared as soloist with Maestro Conlon conducting a recording of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Concertino for Violin and Strings. In 2022, Adam curated, performed, and produced a filmed online concert for the Library of Congress featuring music by Weinberg, Herbert Zipper, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Franz Schreker.

Millstein believes strongly in educating performers and audiences about Recovered Voices. He has performed lecture recitals across the United States and abroad, notably at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, USC Max Kade Institute, Colburn School, and Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy. He has been invited to guest lecture at Arizona State University on three different occasions as well as Northern Arizona University and UCLA as part of the Milken Center’s annual musical conference. Adam is currently working as Creative Producer for the Louisville Orchestra’s upcoming production of Viktor Ullmann’s Opera Der Kaiser Von Atlantis.

As an orchestral musician, Millstein has already played with some of the country’s greatest orchestras. He acted as guest associate concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony and guest assistant concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. He has played as a substitute in the Los Angeles Opera and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He has acted as concertmaster of the Sequoia Symphony and Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra where he received an Orchestral Leadership Fellowship for two summers.

As soloist, Millstein has appeared with the Sequoia Symphony with Maestro Bruce Kiesling and on two tours of Bulgaria with Maestro Maxim Eshkenazy.

Adam has participated in the Mainly Mozart Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Nevada Chamber Music Festival, and performed at the La Jolla Music Series.

Adam received his Artist Diploma at the Colburn School in Los Angeles under the renowned pedagogue, Robert Lipsett. He holds his Masters Degree from Colburn and his Bachelor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Michigan.

Adam loves dogs and when he isn’t spending time with his beloved rescue, Ozzy, he frequently volunteers at the Angel City Pit Bull rescue shelter in his hometown of Los Angeles.