Merynda Adams made her New York debut to a sold out Carnegie Recital Hall as a 1994 winner of the Artists International Competition. She was described by the Star-Ledger as playing the harp "with color and great facility." In demand as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the Metropolitan area, Ms. Adams has performed with the New York Grand Opera, the New Philharmonic, the Plainfield Symphony, the Metro Lyric Opera, Lyrica Chamber Music, the Opera at Florham, the Northeastern Philharmonic, the Colonial Symphony, the Westfield Symphony, the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. A winner of the South Orange Symphony Artists' Competition and the Goldblatt Award, she has performed at Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall and off-Broadway in the "The Fantasticks." Ms. Adams' appearance is sponsored by the Friends of the Cranford Public Library.
