Flute

Adam Kuenzel

principal flute
Eileen Bigelow Chair

Since joining the Minnesota Orchestra in 1990, Principal Flute Adam Kuenzel has regularly appeared as soloist at Orchestra Hall. In October 2007 he gave the world premiere of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski’s Fantasies for Flute and Orchestra, Il Piffero della Notte, with the composer conducting. In January 2009 he performed Bernstein’s Halil, earning acclaim from The New York Times and MusicalAmerica.com. He premiered Manuel Sosa’s Eloquentia for Flute and Orchestra in April 2010.

A native of Cincinnati, Kuenzel attended the Oberlin Conservatory, studying with Robert Willoughby. After graduation, he studied with Tom Nyfenger in New Haven and played in jazz groups for two years in Cincinnati. In 1983, he joined the Charleston Symphony as principal flute before assuming the principal chair of the San Antonio Symphony. Kuenzel has been a guest artist with the Aspen Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, St. Bart’s Music Festival in the French West Indies and Oregon Bach Festival.