Adrienne Hyde is an arts administrator, music educator, and historical performance specialist dedicated to creating equitable, accessible spaces within classical music. A versatile performer, Adrienne holds degrees in Baroque Cello and Viola da Gamba from the Juilliard School, where she was a Morse Teaching Artist, Music Advancement Program Fellow, and Gluck Community Service Fellow. She specializes in historical performance practices on the baroque cello, bass & treble viol, lirone, and bass violin. She collaborates with notable groups such as Vox Luminis, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Seattle Bach Festival, Haymarket Opera, Aston Magna, and Atlanta Baroque.
Committed to expanding representation within classical music, Adrienne has served as Artistic Administrator for the Valissima Institute, a conducting program supporting young women, and is the co-founder of Open Source Baroque, dedicated to performing music by women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ composers. She has also held positions coordinating music for patients in psychiatric and long-term care settings of hospitals.
Adrienne previously worked at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as the Associate Director of Education & Community Engagement. In that role, she oversaw the BSO’s wide-ranging educational programs; designing curriculum and programming for children’s concerts, facilitating school and community residencies, and managing the BSO’s four youth orchestras. Now she works in the Booking & Artist Management department at Young Concert Artists, promoting and supporting the careers of YCA’s incredible roster of emerging artists. In her latest bid to find hobbies outside of her work, Adrienne has been trying things like; Olympic weightlifting, carb-loading (searching for NYC’s best bagel), and leaving her house even when it’s dark outside.