About:
Adam is a British composer, violist, and researcher working across contemporary classical, experimental, and electronic music. His research focuses on the anthropology of music and sound, and he has undertaken ethnographic work on rave culture in Tbilisi and Jewish musics in New York City. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, funded by a Trinity College Research Studentship.
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 was showcased at Classical:NEXT 2025 in Berlin, with further performances at Hjorted Art & Music Festival (Sweden, 2025) and QueerScore (London, 2026).
Adam’s music has been performed by the Castalian Quartet, Consone Quartet, Trio Farben, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, Riot Ensemble, 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 was a Student Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in 2023-2025 and is currently 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, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Nordisk KulturFund and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust.
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