“Virtuoso technique, beautiful sound and a sincere musicality” are terms music critics are using to describe American guitarist Adam Kossler. In addition to performing regularly as a solo artist, Adam joins his father William and brother John in both duo and trio concerts.
Adam Kossler is a top prizewinner in a number of national and international guitar competitions including the Boston Guitarfest, Columbus Guitar Symposium, East Carolina Guitar Competition, MANC Guitar Competition, Texas International Guitar Competition, and the Music Teacher National Association Competition. Kossler’s international performance career has taken him throughout the US, Canada, Central America and Asia. He has been a featured artist with numerous concert series including the John E. Marlow Guitar Series (Bethesda, MD), Isle Newell Concert Series (Apalachicola, FL), and the Seven Hills Guitar Series (Tallahassee, FL) among many others.
In addition to his performance career, Kossler is also in demand as a teacher and clinician. Recent engagements include The Denver Guitar Summit (Denver, CO), Festival Internacional Suzuki (Guatemala City, Guatemala), University of Alaska Guitar Festival (Anchorage, AK) Rantucci Guitar Festival (Buffalo, NY), and in 2015 Kossler was the featured Artist in Residence for Utah Classical Guitar (Salt Lake City, UT).
In 2014, Kossler released his first solo recording, Guitar Recital. The album was received with enthusiasm by critics and audiences and was featured Tom Cole’s show, “The G String” on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington D.C. In 2015 Kossler released his second solo record. Ekloge, an album of 20thcentury music, includes works by Joaquin Rodrigo, Manuel Maria Ponce and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, as well as his own new transcriptions of music by Jean Sibelius. Since 2019, Kossler has released two Kossler Duo albums with his brother John, the first of which debuted on in the top ten of the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart. The Kossler Duo is committed to new music and in 2023 released the first volume of Preludes and Fugues, a collection of transcriptions and newly composed works for two guitars. Collaborating composers for this project include Javier Farias, Clarice Assad, Dan Locklair, Andrew Zohn, Ben Verdery, Douglas Lora Mark Anthony Cruz, Luc Levesque Auero Puerto Carreno Celil Refik Kaya Gerard Drozd, Rafael Scarfullery and Douglas Boyce.
Adam Kossler began his musical studies with his father William Kossler. He went on to earn his BM degree at East Carolina University with Dr. Elliot Frank, his MM degree at Appalachian State University as a teaching assistant to Dr. Douglas James, and completed a DMA in Guitar Performance at Florida State University where he served as a teaching assistant to Bruce Holzman. Dr. Kossler currently directs the guitar program at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Artist's webpage: music.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/directory/dr-adam-kossler