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Melanie
Adams, Alto
Who are you?
Proud intima alto and east coast import.
Member since...
January 2000.
I grew up in...
York, P.E.I., a farm village halfway between Charlottetown and P.E.I.'s
famous North Shore.
I would describe my personal style as...
positive, upbeat, cheerful, quick to laugh.
Good music goes well with...
Good food, a fun party, a long drive.
Secretly, I...
wish I were my cat.
The CDs in my stereo are...
Neko Case, Blacklisted; Bran Van 3000, Discosis; the
Tallis Scholars singing Thomas Luis de Victoria's Requiem, Matthew
Good, Avalanche (on which intima is doing some back-up singing),
and Anne Sofie von Otter with Elvis Costello, For the Stars.
Melanie’s Official Bio
Melanie Adams was born in Charlottetown PEI, and began her musical training there in piano, moving on to french horn and then voice. She continued her musical studies and holds a BMus. from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, and a MMus. from McGill University. She moved to Vancouver in 1999 and became a member of musica intima in January 2000. She also enjoys a solo career, performing in recitals, and as invited soloist with many Vancouver ensembles, as well as in Montreal, Ottawa and the Maritimes. She also greatly enjoys teaching, and is an instructor in the Musical Theatre Department at North Vancouver’s Capilano College; at the British Columbia Conservatory of Music, where she served as the first Voice Department Head from 2002-2005. She also has a studio in her home in New Westminster, BC, where she lives with her husband David and baby daughter Emily (and the envied cat Ayesha).