Publications

books, articles and reviews

Adler-McKean, Jack, The Techniques of Tuba Playing / Die Spieltechnik der Tuba, Kassel: Bärenreiter, June 2020.

Adler-McKean, Jack, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments. Ed. by Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers, and John WallaceMusic and Letters, 100/4 (November 2019), 757–760. 

Adler-McKean, Jack, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015Tempo, 70/276 (April 2016), 87-89.

Adler-McKean, Jack, ‘A Day for Pierre Boulez’, Lucerne Festival im Sommer, Kultur- und KongresszentrumTempo, 70/275 (January 2016), 98-99.


sheet music

Compositions and arrangements including Engführung for tuba and harp (2014-15) and Divertimento for Tuba-Euphonium Septet (2012) published by Potenza Music.

Curator of the Contemporary Music for Tuba Collection published by Edition Gravis.


conference presentations

2021 tbc (Postponed from May 2020 due to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic): Intersections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Opera (University of Cambridge)

March 2021: European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (Royal Academy of Music)

Jan 2021: Historical Performance Conference (Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington IN, USA)

June 2019: The Spectral Tuba at Spectralism (IRCAM, Paris)

April 2019: Edinburgh Science Festival with Prof. Lasse Rempe-Gillen (National Museum of Scotland)

January 2019: Research Masterclass with Prof. John Rink (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London)

July 2018: Music and Mathematics, Chaos or Chess with Prof. Emily Howard and Prof. Lasse Rempe-Gillen, part of Resonances of Complex Dynamics (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh)