adrian coburn

Adrian Coburn is a musician who attended classes and concerts at CCRMA from September, 2000 to June, 2005. As a composer she learned to edit sound at CCRMA, to listen to Iannus Xenakis, and to work and improvise with other musicians including Carolyn Chen, Jeffrey Treviño, Grace Leslie, Sasha Leitman, Roopa Mahadevan, Mahan Esfahani, Neepa Acharya, Jennifer Lane, Jonathan Berger, and Robert Huw Morgan.

After graduating from Stanford, Adrian relocated to southern California where she attended Pasadena City College, learning from Anne Marie Ketchum and singing alonside Anne-Marie Reyes and Hortensia Tamayo, and then moved to New York to work with Judy Natalucci, and also to hear wonderful drumming by Larry and Sonia Wright.

In the summers, Adrian attended the Poto Festival and the Burning Man Festival. During cleanup of the latter, she met her husband and they moved to Austin Texas, where Adrian earned a Masters of Music degree in music composition from Texas State University, studying with Dr. Ippolito, Dr. Pedroza, Dr. Pete Rodriguez, Dr. Mooney, and Dr. Schüler, and befriended Laura Brackney.

After this, she and her husband moved back to California where Adrian raises her kids, is listening to the entirety of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 5 Albums by 100 Key Artists as well as other stuff and writing about it on her upcoming events page on her website. She started doing this as a way to stay connected to music between housework, then during the pandemic, and now because it's important to listen and write, to work through the prejudices she's gained in some of the above places, and to connect to some of the music and cultures of people of color that she has had the privelege of encountering in some of the above places, and in coming to terms with her own identify as a biracial person.