Adam De Wilde is an internationally trained performer in classical voice, creative writer and a scholar of the dramatic arts. An alumnus from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore, he has performed in several different countries across the globe and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.
Adam began his career as an entertainer at a very young age, staging puppet shows for his parents and their friends. It was from these humble beginnings Adam found his passion as a storyteller – studying film, creative writing and eventually music, learning and appreciating the different ways in which humans connect to past, present and future.
In his years at high school, Adam performed in the college musical several times, making a name for himself in his turn at a featured role as the Teen Angel in Grease, and was cast as the lead role of Jesus in Godspell in his senior year. This passion for performance led to his foray into film studies at Monash University. At Monash, Adam studied the structure of storytelling, completing two short films during his course, and one outside of his studies for the Tropfest festival. Adam further wanted to be in front of a captive audience, taking performing arts units and eventually auditioning for a position at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore, where he was awarded a full scholarship. Here, Adam honed his craft as a vocalist, studying classical techniques in both opera and art song, performing works from composers such as Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss and Gabriel Fauré. In addition to this, Adam performed alongside internationally renowned artists Roger Vignoles and Nigel North, attended masterclasses under Sally-Anne Russell, Nancy Yuen and Sumi Jo among others. In 2014, Adam premiered a work by recognised composer Joshua Cerdenia “Dark Lady (Four Shakespeare Sonnets) for voice, violin and piano”. to critical acclaim. In his final year, Adam worked with other students to create the first student led production at the conservatory, performing as The Solider in Igor Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du Soldat.
In addition, Adam is a sporadic performer of other instruments in various situations, having played (among others) trumpet, trombone and euphonium for assorted high school bands, various kinds of gamelan in the mountains of Bali, and has been known to frequent the karaoke bars of Melbourne and Singapore, with a recent showing at a small establishment in the karaoke mecca of Tokyo. Adam is currently working with other international artists on a musical project for premiere at an upcoming Melbourne Fringe Festival, studies voice under Peter Mander, performs in theatre productions around Melbourne and continues to review films for This Is Film.