Upcoming Tuba Recordings by Jack Adler-McKean

In late November and December, Jack Adler-McKean, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Malmö Academy of Music, will head into the studio to record three contemporary tuba works composed specifically for him in recent years.

One of these is Trans-étude #4: Intérieur by Fernando Garnero, a recent PhD graduate from Lund University. Originally composed in 2022 for its premiere in Malmö, the piece has since been revised and performed by Jack extensively across Europe.

Another is RÓL (og gól [roll & goal]) by Copenhagen-based Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir. Jack premiered the work at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 2023, and was later invited to perform it at the Herkulessaal in Munich in 2024, when Gísladóttir received the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize.

The most recent addition to the set is The Self/Situation by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, an African-American composer residing in Switzerland. Commissioned with support from the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University, the piece premiered in April 2025 as part of the Levande Musik series in Kinna, Götland.

These recordings will be released as soon as possible. In the meantime, you can explore Jack’s previous studio work from earlier this year at IAC via this playlist