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In 2010 Adrian Werum founded "Orchestra of Cultures" in Stuttgart / Germany and since then acts as composer as well as Musical & Artistic Director. He was the music director of the world premiere of Roman Polanski's musical adaptation of "Dance of the Vampires" and also premiered the show on Broadway. His operetta "Hollywood Diva" has been playing to sold-out audiences at the St. Petersburg Operetta Theater since 2014 and was voted Russia's best new musical in 2016. He is "composer in residence" at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. His CD- productions with tenor Jay Alexander made him the top of the German classical music charts in 2015, 2017 and 2019. In 2016, he produced a new musical featuring refugees from the Middle East. He is currently writing a musical setting of Hermann Hesse's novel "Narcissus and Goldmund."
ENGAGEMENTS
01/2019-05/2020 Musical Supervisor / Arranger "Wallace" Musical Duisburg Theater am Marientor, Germany.
05/2019-09/2019 Lecturer for arranging/orchestration at Deutsche Pop, Stuttgart Germany.
01/2018-07/2018 Musical Supervisor "Dracula" (Composer: Frank Wildhorn) Theater im Sägewerk Geislingen, Germany
12/2017 Musical Supervisor "Count of Monte Christo" (composer: Frank Wildhorn) Operetta Theater St. Petersburg, Russia
09/2016-04/2017 Composer / Musical Supervisor of the school musical "Rocko and the Heart of Stone" Elementary School Kreutzerfeld Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany.
11/2016-07/2017 Composer rock-pop musical "Stage of Dreams" Sindelfingen, Germany.
08/2016-05/2017 Lecturer for arrangement/orchestration at Deutsche Pop, Stuttgart Germany.
09/2015-10/2016 Composer / Musical director "Symphony of life of our" city musical Sindelfingen, Germany.
08/2014-04/2017 Composer / Lyricist / Musical Supervisor "Hollywood Diva" Operetta Theater St. Petersburg, Russia
07/2013-07/2014 Composer / Musical Supervisor "Sirens of the Homeland" Stadtmusikanten Sindelfingen, Germany
09/2012-06/2013 Musical Director "I have never been to New York" Theater 11 Zurich, Switzerland
03/2011-05/2011 Musical Direction "Dällebach Kari" Theater 11 Zurich, Switzerland
11/2010-02/2011 Musical Supervisor "Tears of Heaven" (Composer: Frank Wildhorn) Seoul, Korea
03/2010- until today Composer, Artistic Director "Orchester der Kulturen / Global Symphony" Stuttgart www.orchesterderkulturen.de
05/2008-10/2008 Musical Supervisor "Carmen" (Composer: Frank Wildhorn) Karlin Theater Prague, Czech Republic
07/2007-04/2008 Musical Director / Orchestrator "Musical Showstar" ZDF German Television
12/2005-06/2007 Musical director "Mamma Mia" Palladium Theater Stuttgart, Germany
01/2005-12/2005 Musical Director / Pianist "Marshall&Alexander" Germany Tour 08/2003-12/2004 Musical Director "42nd Street" Apollo Theater Stuttgart, Germany
01/2000-07/2003 Musical Director / Orchestrator Roman Polanski`s "Dance of the Vampires" Apollo Theater Stuttgart, Germany
08/2002-02/2003 Associate Musical Supervisor "Dance of the Vampires" on Broadway with Michael Crawford Minskoff Theatre, NY NY
08/1997-01/2000 Musical Director / Orchestrator Roman Polanski`s "Dance of the Vampires" Raimundtheater Vienna, Austria
08/1995-07/1997 Assistant Conductor Raimundtheater Vienna, Austria for Disney's "Beauty and the Beast".
08/1994-07/1995 Assistant conductor Raimundtheater Vienna, Austria for "Grease" 09/1991-07/1994 Trainer and repetiteur at the Studio for Song and Dance Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria
STUDIES:
10//1988-07/1994 composition studies with Prof . Karl Schwertsik, University of Music Vienna, Austria
10/1990-07/1992 Jazz piano with Prof . Roland Batik, Conservatory Vienna, Austria
10/1989-07/1990 Jazz-Arrangement with Christian Mühlbacher, Prayner- Conservatory, Vienna
SCHOOL EDUCATION:
until 06/1988 high school diploma at Staatliches Gymnasium Mainz-Gonsenheim, Germany
06/1988 composition studies with Friedrich-Karl Wanek, Peter- Cornelius- Conservatory, Mainz, Germany
06/1988 Piano studies with Hans-Georg Lange, Peter-Cornelius- Conservatory, Mainz, Germany
07/1979 Catholic Martinus Elementary School - Mainz-Gonsenheim, Germany
AWARDS / CHARTS:
01/2019 No. 4 European Ethno Charts with SIXT SYMPHONY 3rd set.
12/2019 No. 4 German Classical Charts with "Ein Stern geht auf" Orchestra of Cultures feat. Jay Alexander ( Conductor / Orchestrator / Producer ).
2017 No. 1 German Classical Charts with "Schön ist die Welt" Orchester der Kulturen feat. Jay Alexander (Conductor / Orchestrator)
2016 Golden Mask Award Russian Federation for "Hollywood Diva" category Best New Musical ( Composer / Lyricist / Orchestrator / Supervisor ).
2014 No. 1 in German classical charts with "Geh aus mein Herz" Czech Symphony Orchestra with Jay Alexander (Conductor / Orchestrator)
2013 Manfred Rommel Prize Award for German-Turkish Integration
2007 Ernst Fischer Prize German Broadcasting for entertaining orchestral music
1988 Ludwigshafen Composition Prize for String Quintet