Michael Adams

Michael has carved out a unique career that has led down many roads: as a chamber musician, orchestral player, author, public radio host, and along with his violinist wife Daria, the founding Co-Artistic Director of Music in the Vineyards. As MITV’s concert commentator, Michael loves to make each composer more human — through insightful stories, explanations and analysis — creating multiple entry points into the music for the listener. Since retiring from the viola section of The Minnesota Orchestra, Michael has been the program annotator for The Schubert Club of Minnesota, the region’s oldest concert series. Michael and Daria are excited to be permanent residents of Napa after 30 years of “partial” residency every August.