Celebrated for his "brilliant" interpretations, and reviewed as "deserving of the cheers he received...a pianist in command," Adam Tendler has emerged from the rural hills of Vermont as a young, American pianist recognized for his musical sensitivity, daring, ambition, and advocacy.

In 2004, Tendler began negotiations to serve as co-author and revisionist for a second edition of John Warthen Struble's The History of American Classical Music with a forward by composer Philip Glass, and has recently finished a first draft of his Psalm Cantata: Eight Meditations on a Theme by Mendelssohn through Psalm 119 for chorus, chamber choir, vocal soloists, string orchestra, guitar, and piano. Between 2004 and 2005, Tendler taught both piano and theory to students at the Monteverdi Music School in Montpelier, Vermont, and worked as a construction laborer on the Canadian border to support a cross-country tour project entitled America 88x50.

Born in 1982, Adam Tendler grew up in a musical family that simultaneously immersed itself in the traditions of classical music while experiencing an overhaul of modern popular and local rural culture. Beginning classical performance training at the age of 7, Tendler immediately began to compose and perform music that often inadvertently fused the two.

Attending a public high school, Tendler performed in solo piano recitals, jazz concerts, orchestral performances, and choral projects throughout New England. He also taught children and adults privately, served as musical director for theatre productions, and won a number of awards and competitions for piano performance.

As an undergraduate at the Indiana University School of Music, Tendler continued intensive keyboard studies while composing privately. His performances throughout this period comprise solo piano recitals and frequent appearances with orchestras under some of today's most celebrated conductors. He also participated and other small instrumental ensembles as soloist, collaborator, or vocalist. At conservatory, he underwent a rigorous training in theory, history, counterpoint, singing skills, dictation, computer/electronic music production, Indian music, pedagogy, 20th-century composer history, as well as numerous advanced music seminars reserved customarily for graduate and doctoral students, working one-on-one with some of the world's most renowned musical thinkers. He simultaneously participated in a gamut of traditional college studies; including more eclectic programs in the history of Motown, training in the Swahili language, guitar performance, cultural anthropology, and Feldenkrais method. He graduated with Distinction a semester early, in December of 2003.