Adrianne Duncan

Pianist, composer, singer and songwriter Adrianne Duncan has been making music since
the age of six. The daughter of renowned classical guitarist Charles Duncan, she honed her
classical piano skills through private study, master classes with such greats as Murray
Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Emanuel Ax and Ruth Laredo, and summers spent at Tanglewood
and Brevard Music Centers. A Georgia native, she toured throughout the Southeast with
her father and was the pianist for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra for four years
under the baton of Maestro Jere Flint, winning their concerto competition to perform in
Atlanta Symphony Hall. She attended Northwestern University on a music scholarship and
is the winner of numerous piano competitions and awards.
Now based in Los Angeles, Adrianne has performed in venues in the United States, Europe
and South America. She has played and recorded with globally recognized musicians,
including on both albums of the Grammy-nominated Lado B Brazilian Project, with whom
she toured Brazil on keyboards and vocals. She has played keyboard instruments and sung
on numerous recordings (including The Jazz Chamber with legendary multireedist Bennie
Maupin) and was the musical director of the new musical Twins for its premiere in Berlin.
Also a producer and arranger, her projects include albums for actor-singers Jacqueline
Emerson (The Hunger Games) and Larry Wolf (Pound, Putney Swope). Her voice and piano

playing can be heard on numerous film and television soundtracks, including the Emmy-
nominated musical episode of The L Word: Generation Q by Heather McIntosh, Allyson

Newman and Taura Stinson. She was actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s piano coach for the
titular role in the feature film Belle and appears as herself in the Marina Abramovic
documentary 512 Hours.
Adrianne’s composition and arranging project Gullah Meditations, a reimagining of rare
Gullah Geechee spirituals with Grammy-nominated tenor Victor Ryan Robertson
(Metropolitan Opera, Royal Albert Hall, Kennedy Center), has taken the duo to venues as
diverse as the historic Morton Theatre in Athens, Georgia; Penn Center, a National Historic
Landmark District on St. Helena Island, South Carolina; Greenwich House, a 120-year-old
continuously operating music facility in New York City; and independent company Victory
Hall Opera in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the project was presented in a staged version
with Alvin Ailey dancer Fana Minea Tesfagiorgis and directed by Miriam Gordon-Stewart.
With generous grants from the University of Georgia, the Boeing Company and Penn
Center, the project will next be staged in November 2026 with Opera Parallèle in San
Francisco in preparation for a touring production.
Adrianne also performs with her seven-person a cappella vocal improvisation collective
Fish To Birds at such Los Angeles venues as Blue Whale, Catalina Jazz Club, REDCAT at
Disney Hall and Skirball Cultural Center. She is the founder and producer of LA Modern
Jazz Series, a concert series featuring world-class creative jazz musicians, and is the vocal
contractor for Joy Music House.