Mr. Neiman has performed as soloist with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in 1998, and has also appeared with the symphonies of Flagstaff, North Arkansas, Gulf Coast (MS), Massapequa (NY), Vallejo and San Jose. Mr. Neiman has given recitals on the Seattle Symphony Orchestra's Recitals Series, the Rising Stars Series at Ravinia, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. In Europe, he has performed with Italy's Umbria Philharmonic, and gave a recital at the 1994 International Chopin Festival in France, which was broadcast on National Radio and television in Poland.

Mr. Neiman has also toured in Japan, and his Tokyo debut at Suntory Hall was released on CD on Lyric Records. His second CD, which includes works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, will be released this season.

Born in Hayward, California, Mr. Neiman played his first piano concerto with orchestra at the age of nine in Royce Hall in Los Angeles, and at the age of thirteen, he appeared on a live telecast with the Disney Young Musicians Symphony.

In 1995, Mr. Neiman became the youngest artist ever to receive the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award. He also won the Ivo Pogorelich Prize of the Stravinsky International Piano Competition in Illinois ,First Prize at the 1993 Joanna Hodges Chopin Competition, and the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at the Juilliard School in 1997 and 1998. Adam Neiman's early studies were with Trula Whelan and Hans Boepple, and he worked with Herbert Stessin at the Juilliard School, where he earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in 1999.

Mr. Neiman's appearance at the Fourth Annual Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery on February 7, 2001 will mark his debut in Miami, Florida.

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