Randolph-Macon College’s Music Program in the Department of Arts is pleased to introduce Dr. Adrianna Tam as its new Director of Choral Activities and assistant professor of music. Tam will direct the Concert Choir and the Chamber Singers and teach courses in the music program.

She comes to Randolph-Macon from the University of Michigan, where she recently completed her D.M.A. in Choral Conducting. She also holds graduate degrees in choral conducting from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Graz, Austria) and from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. Her undergraduate degree is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tam has led choral ensembles of all levels here and abroad, and she has a passion for bringing choral music to new audiences. Most recently, she was the co-founder and artistic director of Out of the Blue, a chamber ensemble of University of Michigan students, alumni and community members whose mission was to bring diverse choral music to communities that do not traditionally have access to the arts. Out of the Blue presented workshop-concerts in regional correction facilities and worked to raise funds for the continuation of music workshops in Michigan prisons.

In addition, she has worked closely with high school musicians through the University of Michigan’s MPulse Vocal Arts Institute program, and with adults of all ages through the Interlochen College of Creative Arts. An accomplished singer, Tam has sung with the Weimar Bach Academy, the Junge Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble and the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Tam will join the Randolph-Macon College community in August.