books, theses, articles, reviews, and blog postsAdler-McKean, Jack. “Tubas, Tubists, and Composers: a mixed-methodological approach to performer- and composer-instrument relationships,” PhD thesis, The Royal Northern College of Music in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University, 2023. Available here.
Adler-McKean, Jack. “Tuba contra Bombardon: Richard Wagner und die und der tiefe Blechbläserklang des Orchesters” in Farbe und Atmosphäre im tiefen Schweben: Basstrompete und Bass-/ Kontrabasstuba im Orchesterklang Richard Wagners (Leipzig: LM-enc.), 2023 [submitted].
Adler-McKean, Jack, “Historické zvuky hlubokých žesťů od vltavských břehů - raná ventilová ofiklejda od Michálka [Historical low brass sounds from near the Moldau - An early valved ophicleide by Michálek]” in Výběr [Museums of South Bohemia] 59:4 (2022). English-language version available here.
Adler-McKean, Jack. “Serpents, Bombardons, and the “Wiener” Tuba: Richard Wagner and the Evolution of the Orchestral Contrabass Labrosone” in the Historical Brass Society Journal 34 (2022).
Adler-McKean, Jack. “Brass instruments, techniques, and repertoire in the early twenty-first century” in The Oxford Handbook of Wind Instruments (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2023 [submitted].
Adler-McKean, Jack. Documenting the low brass-wind collection at the Grassi Museum. Blog post for the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Placement Scheme, November 2022.
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 Wallace.” Music and Letters, 100/4 (November 2019), 757–760.
Adler-McKean, Jack. “Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015.” Tempo 70/276 (April 2016), 87-89.
Adler-McKean, Jack. “‘A Day for Pierre Boulez’, Lucerne Festival im Sommer, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum.” Tempo 70/275 (January 2016), 98-99.
sheet musicCompositions 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 presentationsJune 2023: “The ‘Wiener’ tuba: a mixed-methodological approach to instrument studies and artistic research,” American Musical Instrument Society (University of Memphis)
June 2023: “Nineteenth-century operatic orchestration for the tuba family, and its impact on orchestral practice and vocal pedagogy,” Interdisciplinary Approaches to Opera (University of Cambridge)
May 2023: “Electroacoustic resonators in Incursion,” Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media (Harvard University)
May 2023: “The tuba family: a mixed-methodological approach to Artistic Research in music performance,” Practice Research in 21st Century Music (University of London)
April 2023: “The ‘Wiener’ Tuba: Historical and contemporary perspectives,” Sixth International Romantic Brass Symposium “Romantic Brass in Context” (Hochschule der Künste Bern) (with Louis Jake Klein)
March 2023: “Artistic Research and Organology: friends or foes?,” European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen)
March 2023: “Electroacoustic resonators in Incursion,” Composition and Research (Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität Klagenfurt) with Luciano Azzigotti
September 2022: “Serpents, Bombardons, and the ‘Wiener’ Tuba: Richard Wagner and the evolution of the orchestral contrabass labrosone,” The Fourth Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics (mdw, Vienna)
September 2022: “Looking backwards, looking forwards: a multifaceted methodological approach to tuba performance practice,” Royal Musical Association Annual Conference (University of Durham)
June 2022: “Richard Wagner and the contrabass tuba,” Farbe und Atmosphäre im tiefen Schweben: Basstrompete und Bass-/ Kontrabasstuba im Orchesterklang Richard Wagners (Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig)
May 2021: “The contrabass tuba: Wagner’s most mysterious, divisive and influential “invention”?,” Historic Brass Society (online)
March 2021: “Exploring nineteenth-century tuba-composer relationships,” European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (Royal Academy of Music / online)
Jan 2021: “Exploring nineteenth-century tuba-composer relationships,” Historical Performance Institute Fifth Annual Conference (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington IN, USA)
June 2019: The Spectral Tuba, Spectralism (IRCAM, Paris)
April 2019: “Music and Mathematics, Chaos or Chess”, 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, Resonances of Complex Dynamics (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh)
May 2018: “Performance perspectives on ‘Mirum’,” Mauricio Kagel 2018: Performance and Interpretation (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln)