ABOUT ME
BIOGRAPHY
In 2010, Adrian Werum founded the "Orchestra of Cultures" ("World Symphony") in Stuttgart. Since then he has been active both as a composer and as a musical and artistic director. He was the musical 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" was performed in front of a sold-out audience at the St.
St. Petersburg Operetta Theater to sold-out audiences since 2014 and was voted the best new musical in Russia in 2016. He is "composer in residence" at the Park
Avenue Synagogue in New York City. His CD productions with the
Tenor Jay Alexander made him the 2015, 2017 and 2019
Top of the German classical music charts. In 2016, he produced a new musical that deals with refugees from the Middle East. He is currently writing a musical theater adaptation of "Narcissus and Goldmund" by Hermann Hesse.
TV - Theater - LIVE
2024 Musical director & arranger "China-Girl"
2019-2020 Musical Supervisor & Orchestrator, Musical "Wallace" Duisburg Theater am Marientor, Germany
2016-2019 Lecturer for Arranging & Orchestrating at the German Pop Academy, Stuttgart
2018 Musical direction "Unholy - Unter Dampf, ohne Strom" MTV Unplugged Hamburg, Germany
2017 Musical Supervisor "The Count of Monte Cristo" (Composer: Frank Wildhorn) at the Operetta Theater St. Petersburg, Russia
2016-2017 Composer & Musical Supervisor of the school musical "Rocko and the Heart of Stone" Primary School Kreutzerfeld Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany
2016-2017 Composer Rock-Pop Musical "Stage of Dreams" Sindelfingen, Germany
2017-2018 Composer & Musical Director, Stadtsinfonie, Bad Urach, Germany
2015-2016 Composer & Musical Director "Symphony of Our Lives" Municipal Musical, Sindelfingen, Germany
2014-2017 Composer & Lyricist & Musical Director "Hollywood Diva" Operetta Theater St. Petersburg, Russia
2013-2014 Composer & musical director "Sirens of our country" City musical Sindelfingen, Germany
2012-2013 Musical Director "I've never been to New York" Theater 11 Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Musical Director "Dällebach Kari" Theater 11 Zurich, Switzerland
2010-2011 Musical Director "Tears of Heaven" (Composer: Frank Wildhorn) Seoul, Korea
2010- TODAY Composer & Artistic Director "Orchestra of Cultures / World Symphony" Stuttgart www.worldsymphony.org
2008 Musical Supervisor "Carmen" (Composer: Frank Wildhorn) Karlin Theater Prague, Czech Republic
2007-2008 Musical direction & orchestration "Musical Showstar" ZDF Deutsches Fernsehen, Cologne, Germany
2005-2007 Musical Director "Mamma Mia" Palladium Theater Stuttgart, Germany
2005-2010 Musical director & pianist "Marshall&Alexander" on tour in Germany & Austria
2003-2004 Musical Director "42nd Street" Apollo Theater Stuttgart, Germany
2000-2003 Musical Director & Orchestrator, Roman Polanski's "Dance of the Vampires" Apollo Theater Stuttgart, Germany
2002-2003 Assistant Musical Director "Dance of the Vampires" on Broadway with Michael Crawford Minskoff Theatre, New York, NY, USA
1997-2000 Musical Director & Orchestrator Roman Polanski's "Dance of the Vampires" Raimundtheater Vienna, Austria
1995-1997 Assistant conductor Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" Raimundtheater Vienna
1994-1995 Assistant conductor "Grease" Raimund Vienna, Austria
1992 ORF show with Wencke Myrhe, pianist and orchestrator
1991-1994 Lecturer for musical interpretation and solo repetiteur at the dance and singing studio Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria
Studio - Albums
2023 CD "Deutsches Kunstlied" Arranger & Musical Director, World Symphony
2022 CD "Impromptus" piano solo pianist and composer
2021 EP "Adrian Werum and the Jazz Fusiliers" arranger and pianist
2021 CD "A World Symphony" World Symphony, composer and musical director, Universal Music MENA
2019 CD "Tour Südwest" World Symphony, conductor & arranger
2019 CD "Du meine Seele singe" with Jay Alexander, top ten of the German classical music charts, World Symphony
2018 EP & video "We are Europe"
2018 CD "A Star is rising" with Jay Alexander, World Symphony, Top Ten of the German Classical Charts,
2018 CD "Ti Amo" World Symphony conductor & arranger.
2017 CD "Rocko and the Heart of Stone" Composer and musical director
2016 CD "The world is beautiful" with Jay Alexander, World Symphony, number 1 in the German classical music charts, recorded at SWR Stuttgart
2016 CD "The Crescent Moon illuminates the World" with Rhimoy Music Beijing, World Symphony, recorded at Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg
2015 CD "Tales of Indonesia" Pianist & Conductor
2012 CD "Jewish Romantic Music" Park Avenue Synagogue New York, Conductor & Arranger
2011 CD "The Trio Album" Piano & Composition
2009 CD "Home" with Jay Alexander, conductor
2008 FILM MUSIC "Hands off Mississippi" Conductor
2002 CD "Musical Highlights" Stella Entertainment, conductor, arranger, producer, produced at Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg
1992 Jingle Ö3