Adrian Verdejo

Faculty Instructor
Language, Literature and Performing Arts
Music

About

Music Coordinator, Guitar Ensemble, Guitar

Adrian Verdejo is a guitarist, recording artist, music educator, and podcaster based in Vancouver. He has commissioned, premiered, and arranged many works for classical guitar. Adrian Verdejo performs as a soloist, with flutist Mark Takeshi McGregor, and he is a founding member of the Victoria Guitar Trio. He has played throughout Canada and has also performed in the US, Mexico, and Europe.

Adrian frequently performs as an orchestral and chamber musician on a variety of plucked string instruments with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Turning Point, Aventa Ensemble, and many more. Verdejo holds degrees from the University of Ottawa (MMus), University of Victoria (BMus), and Capilano University, where he studied with guitarists Patrick Roux, Dr. Alexander Dunn, and Stephen Boswell.

Adrian is the host and producer of the Redshift Radio Podcast, in which he interviews Canadian composers and performers of contemporary classical music.

Education and credentials

  • MMus, Ottawa
  • BMus, Victoria