Adrienne Cannon has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in eleven U.S. states and several countries spanning North America and Europe.  She has participated in music festivals including Interharmony International Music Festival in Arcidosso, Italy; the Karen Tuttle Viola Workshop; Rocky Ridge Summer Music Camp; “Soundfest” with the Colorado Quartet; and the New York Summer Music Festival (where she received their Full Scholarship Award in 2009).  Ms. Cannon has been the recipient of awards including the Tucson Philharmonia Scholarship Competition Merit Award (2010) and the Young Musicians Competition: Honorable Mention, Division Four Finalist (2008).

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Ms. Cannon's primary teachers have included Hong-Mei Xiao and Dennis Bourret. She has also studied with and participated in master classes from Roberto Diaz, Brett Deubner, John Graham, Jeffrey Irvine, Karen Ritscher, Helena Baillie, Rita Porfiris, Yuri Gandelsman, Susan Dubois, Ann Weaver, Boris Vayner and Alla Aranovskaya of the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Danny Seidenberg of the Turtle Island String Quartet, among others.​

As an active performer of new music, Ms. Cannon has premiered works by Weston Brown, Frederick Evans, Jared Aragón, and Immanuel Abraham. Her performances with the Arizona Contemporary Ensemble and "Sana Coetus Novum" String Quartet have fueled her passion for contemporary classical music. She studied music composition with Pamela Decker after receiving performances of her orchestral compositions by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra as a member of their Young Composers' Project.

Adrienne has devoted much of her life to involvement in her community as a teacher and performer. She began her teaching career in 2010 as a sectional coach through "Tucson Jr. Strings," a youth orchestra and training program, of which she is an alumni. Ms. Cannon has since been invited as a guest clinician for a number of school orchestra programs, and as a volunteer violin instructor through Tucson Summer Music. Adrienne is the proud teacher of a number of talented young musicians through her private studio in Tucson. Ms. Cannon also volunteers her talents as a violist for the church choirs of St. Christopher and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, under the direction of Dominic Muller.

Adrienne Cannon is currently principal viola for the Arizona Symphony Orchestra while pursuing her Master of Music degree in Viola Performance with Hong-Mei Xiao at the University of Arizona.