Henrie Adams

Henrie Adams (17 May 1954 – 26 November 2022) was a Dutch conductor. He focused on band music, and was from 1989 to 2019 director of the Spanish Banda Sinfónica de la Sociedad Musical "La Artística" in Buñol, leading them to achieve prizes at international competitions. He conducted them in many recordings. Adams led world premieres of works for symphonic bands, such as Johan de Meij's Symphony No. 3 "Planet Earth", a choral symphony, in 2007. From 2008, he also directed the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castelló in Castellón de la Plana.

Biography Adams played the oboe from the age of eight. From 1969 he was an oboist with the , a concert band,

He became conductor of the orchestra Sinfonietta Geleen and orchestra "L'Union", in Heythuysen, the (1987–1989) and the (Royal) orchestra "Eendracht" (Meijel). He was also second conductor of Orchestra St. Michaël Thorn and active as a guest conductor with the Limburgs Symfonie Orkest (LSO) in Maastricht, the Royal Military Band "Johan Willem Friso" in The Hague, the Royal Band of the Belgian Guides in Brussels, the symphony orchestra of the Maastricht Academy of Music, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Madrid, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Valencia . and Johan de Meij's Symphony No. 3 "Planet Earth", a choral symphony with women's choir, both 2007,