Jack Adler-McKean works to promote the tuba family through collaborations with internationally renowned ensembles, composers and academic institutions. Recent projects include performances with Ensemble Resonanz and Ensemble Modern, music theatre productions on stage at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Philharmonie Luxembourg, collaborations on new solo works with Georges Aperghis and Michael Finnissy, premières at the BBC Proms and Darmstädter Ferienkurse (winner of the 2018 scholarship prize), and recitals in New York and Buenos Aires, as well as presentations at conferences in Paris and Cologne, working with tuba students in Ankara and Oslo, giving seminars for composers in London and Boston, and writing reviews for TEMPO and Music and Letters. Orchestral engagements range from contrabass tuba with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, to serpent and ophicleide with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and Spira Mirabilis. He has authored The Playing Techniques of the Tuba (due for publication by Bärenreiter in May 2020), he curates the Contemporary Music for Tuba collection for Edition Gravis, whilst his own compositions and arrangements are published by Potenza Music. Having studied in Manchester and Hannover with scholarships from the Deutsche Akademische Austauchdienst and The Leverhulme Trust amongst others, he is working towards his PhD at the Royal Northern College of Music, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain.