Meanwhile, he is rehearsing with the Skating Club of Boston for SkateFest 2010, an ice show to be held at Harvard’s Bright Hockey Arena on Feb. 14. Adrian will do a solo number to an Adam Ant song, “Goody Two Shoes.” In April, he will skate in another Cambridge show, Ice Chips.

Adrian began skating at six years old, when a friend asked him if he wanted to take a basic skills class. “I thought it would be awful,” Adrian recalls with a grin, his dark eyes shining with enthusiasm as he talks about his favorite sport. “All I could think of is people falling when they skate.”

But Adrian took the class, passed through basics lessons quickly—in just a month—and was soon doing crossovers, dips, and gliding. He had caught the skating bug, and decided to take private lessons with SCB coach Jason Wong of Lexington. Wong says Adrian is “the hardest working young skater I know.” Wong says his young pupil is “passionate, smart,” and “one of the very few young skaters I work with who can juggle training and school and achieve at high levels in both areas. He’s the complete package,” he declares.

At the Fenn School in Concord, Adrian maintains honor roll status and never misses an assignment, despite the long hours he puts in each afternoon, evening, and weekend at the rink. He is also on the wrestling team at Fenn. The time commitment a junior skater faces is particularly heavy on weekends, he explains, especially on Saturdays. When other boys his age might be sleeping late, playing video games, or hanging out with friends, Adrian is taking three hours of lessons, doing an hour of off-ice conditioning, taking the ballet lessons that are essential for figure skaters, and working out on his own to stay in shape. The student is also a teacher who runs a group of three-year-olds through two hours of basic skills lessons. “I love to see them laugh and smile, to realize how much joy they get out of skating,” he says.

Adrian placed 12th at the Junior National Figure Skating Championships in December, his third time competing there, and has medaled at the New England Regional Figure Skating Championships for the past three years.

The occasional blackened eye or split lip, and the more common bumps and bruises don’t bother him. “Skating really hurts your feet,” he points out, adding, “I limp around sometimes.” Adrian used to be “really nervous” on the ice, “but not any more,” he says. Last summer his fear suddenly disappeared, a liberating experience. “I felt so fantastic!” he says.

SkateFest 2010 benefits the Salvation Army’s Our Place Day Care Center for homeless children in Cambridge. Skaters between the ages of seven and forty will perform, including the Junior Ladies National Silver Medalist Yasmin Siraj and two sets of nationally ranked pairs skaters. The show is underwritten by corporate donations and last year some $80,000 was raised. Admission to the 2 p.m. event is free.