Musical Performances

Solo Piano

Adrienne has performed as a soloist in club venues across the United States, and as an accompanist in countless concert venues, including Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in NYC.

She performs her original compositions for piano with a unique ability to communicate with her audiences through music.

Long a favorite of women’s music audiences, in recent years she has branched out into composing for opera and theater ensembles, broadening both her reach and her stylistic range on the piano.

Testimonials
“Adrienne is an incredible pianist.”
Holly Near
“Torf’s delicately skilled touch blended perfectly, no matter what the style…[In] the evening show-stopper, “Hay Una Mujer”… Torf performed an amazing, complex arrangement of the tune [which] brilliantly and eloquently conveyed the horror and loss.”
S. L. GuthrieAnchorage Daily News
“Adrienne Torf is a true musician. Her compositions go beyond the frame of jazz and the classics to create a free and unique world. Yet, she maintains a dignity essential in music… [Her music] is colorful, mysterious and profound.”
ADLIB Magazine
“Brooklyn From The Roof is a gem of an album… [It] shows her to be a commanding talent, by turns romantic, introspective and witty.”
Jeff McLaughlinThe Boston Globe
“Torf succeeds in communicating her love of music, and in pulling us into it with her.”
Tatiana SchreiberGCN

Four Pianists

 Photo by Ruth Kaiser

In the Spring of 2025, renowned pianists Mary Watkins, Barbara Higbie, Tammy Lynn Hall, and Adrienne Torf joined musical forces for an evening of their original pieces as well as well-known tunes – from four pianos.

In their two performances at the Occidental Arts Center and The Freight in Berkeley, their mutual affection and respect based on decades of friendship shined through and the reception was resoundingly joyful.

Videos of the event by Irene Young

Adrienne with Voices of the Revolution

Voices fo the Revolution Cast

L-R: Ruelaine Stokes, Kim Griffin, Susan Harris, Lisa Sarno, Tari Muniz, Adrienne Torf, Laurie Hollinger, Shelia Burks, Rose Jangmi Cooper

Productions

Lansing, MI – November 2023 | Toledo, OH – November 2023 | Lansing, MI – April 2024 | Madison, WI – July 2025

“This morning [after the performance by Adrienne Torf and Voices of the Revolution] ] I can yet hear the applause in my body. I can see the poetry of June Jordan in me and in every woman. It was EARTH SHIFT! …All those words in one place, on one stage with the piano of Adrienne Torf laying the substrate from which the Voices of the Revolution bolted up like lightning, growing from a fire field.”

Semaj Brown

Poet Laureate of Flint, MI

Videos – Words by June Jordan, Music by Adrienne Torf

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