Adam Holzman was born in 1960 in New York City, USA. He began studying the guitar at the age of 7 as a student of his older brother Bruce and continued his private study with Albert Valdes Blain and Eliot Fisk. He returned to work with his older brother Bruce Holzman at Florida State University where he received his Musical Degrees. In addition to his studies he has participated in master classes with renowned guitarist Oscar Ghiglia in Siena at the Academia Musicale de Chigiana and at the Aspen music festival. Twice he was chosen to perform in the historic master classes of the legendary Andres Segovia.
Mr. Holzman has been critically acclaimed receiving rave reviews from music lovers and critics around the world. He has been hailed as “polished and quite dazzling” by The N.Y. Times. Mr. Holzman has performed at the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, distinguished New York venues such as Kaufman Hall at the 92nd St. Y, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Recital Hall as well as in music festivals and series from Miami to San Francisco and from Boston to New Orleans. His extensive international performances have taken him throughout Europe, Canada, Mexico, Central and Latin America.

Mr. Holzman’s recordings for the Naxos label have been critically acclaimed. The first two contain music by Fernando Sor and have been called “...irresistible” by Gramophone Magazine. The second one contains music of Manuel Maria Ponce. His recording debut, on HRH Records, is a collection of rarely or never before recorded selections. According to The American Record Guide this performance is “so flawless he makes it all sound easy.” The American Record guide commented the following on his recording of The Venezuelan Waltzes of Antonio Lauro: “The landmark recording was David Russell’s 1980 LP. Now, 20 years later, comes another masterly recording by Adam Holzman: in many ways it raises the benchmark still further.” His newest Naxos release is the Bardenklange, Opus 13, of Johann Kaspar Mertz.

Mr. Holzman’s commitment to new music has led him to co-commission Samuel Adler’s First Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra. He was the first guitarist to play the music of French composer Roland Dyens in North America and he has also premiered works by composers Robert Helps and Stephen Funk Pearson.

Adam Holzman is also the founder of the Guitar Department at the University of Texas at Austin where, in addition to his active performing career, he heads a thriving guitar studio. From 1992 to 1994 Mr. Holzman held the title of “Maestro Extraordinario” given by the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, where he served as artist-in-residence. In 2001, Adam Holzman was awarded the Ernst von Dohnanyi Prize for Outstanding Achievement from Florida State University and the Robert W. Hamilton Fine Arts Award from the University of Texas.

Adam Holzman currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Carolyn and their son Benjamin. For more than twenty years, as a recording artist, concert performer, soloist and educator, he has been at the forefront of a generation of guitarists.