Adam Tendler has been called "an exuberantly expressive pianist" who "vividly displayed his enthusiasm for every phrase" by The Los Angeles Times, an “intrepid...outstanding...maverick pianist” by The New Yorker, a "modern-music evangelist" by Time Out New York, and a pianist who "has managed to get behind and underneath the notes, living inside the music and making poetic sense of it all," by The Baltimore Sun, which continued, "if they gave medals for musical bravery, dexterity and perseverance, Adam Tendler would earn them all." 

Tendler has performed solo recitals in all fifty United States, including engagements at Columbia University, Bard College, Princeton University, New York University, Kenyon College, Boston Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, Portland State University (Oregon), University of Nebraska, Indiana University, University of Alaska and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, Peabody Conservatory as well as artistic landmarks like New York's Symphony Space, Carnegie Hall, The Maverick Concert Hall, Joe’s Pub, The Fisher Center at Bard College, Stonewall Inn, The Rubin Museum, Rothko Chapel and James Turrell's Skypace in Sarasota Florida, its first musical performer.