About:
Adam is a British composer, violist and anthropologist working across contemporary classical, experimental and electronic music. His research focuses on the anthropology of music and sound, and he has undertaken ethnographies of rave culture in Tbilisi and Jewish musics in New York City.
In 2022, he founded Komuna Collective — a group of musicians, DJs, and artists known for genre-blurring performances that have appeared at London Fashion Week, Riposte Queer Art Raves, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, and across the UK. His debut album with the collective, Views from the Real World, was released in 2024, toured the UK and will be showcased at the 2025 Classical:NEXT in Berlin.
Adam’s music has been performed by the Castalian Quartet, Consone Quartet, Trio Farben, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, and RLPO’s Ensemble 10:10, with broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Oxford. He is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Duet Prize for Composition, the National Centre for Early Music’s Young Composer Award, and the Geddes Prize for Most Promising Undergraduate Journalist at the University of Oxford.
He studied Music at the University of Oxford, graduating with the Gibbs Prize and as a Student Prize Winner at Encaenia, before completing an MRes in Anthropology and Music at UCL under the supervision of Professor Georgina Born. He studied composition with Jennifer Walshe and Matthew Shlomowitz.
He is a Student Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and a Research Assistant at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, working on music and Parkinson’s. His work has been supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust.
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