Adam W. McN.

Adam has been a lifelong student of music. At the early age of 4 years old he began vocal training under his Father's tutelage who was trained musically and received a full music scholarship to attend Tennessee Tech. Being raised as a preacher's kid afforded Adam many opportunities to work with professional musicians, singers and the like. By 12 years old, Adam was already comfortable and excelled as a singer and performer internationally. Throughout his middle school and high school years, he was recognized as an accomplished musician and singer at churches, school and nationwide competitions. By age 13, he received invitations to participate in national youth choirs who only seek the most talented young people. By age 15, he was involved in a traveling team of young people who performed concerts weekly to audiences of various sizes (500+). For many years Adam participated in the A/G Fine Arts Festival. Beginning in September each year, over 70,000 junior and senior high school students begin preparing their entries for the District and National Fine Arts Festivals. Each participant had to succeed at the district level to advance to regional level and then advance again to have an opportunity to compete on the national level. Every year Adam received an invitation to nationals. The only year he made the trip to compete in nationals, he placed in the top 33 final competitors in the nation. That year, only the 1st and 2nd place winners were revealed. With a life of musical training, Adam had an opportunity to become the fulltime choir and band director at a large church (400+) with an advanced music program by age 19. Moving directly into a working position as a musician and singer greatly influenced his decision to begin a paid music career instead of continuing his education. Since that time, Adam has productively directed and trained musicians and singers in 3 adult choirs, 2 youth choirs, a childrens choir of 100+, and 8 bands consisting of 48 musicians. He has worked as a consultant for many churches and organizations starting up new music programs.