ADAM
Composer, Viola
Adam is a violist and composer in the Komuna Collective. He read music at the University of Oxford, studying composition with Professors Jennifer Walshe and Martyn Harry, and was awarded the Gibbs Prize in Music. He is currently undertaking an MRes degree in Anthropology and Music at UCL where he is supervised by Professor Georgina Born and convenes the Social and Cultural Study of Music Research and Reading Group. From 2023-4, he is a Student Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. He was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Duet Prize for Composition in 2018 and was subsequently commissioned to wrote for the RLPO’s Ensemble 10:10. In 2022 he won the National Centre for Early Music’s Young Composer Prize in collaboration with BBC Radio 3. He received the 2022 Geddes Prize for most promising undergraduate student journalist at the University of Oxford and received funding to travel to New York to document Punk Jewish counterculture. In 2023 he was awarded a Sir Peter Kirk Travel Scholarship from Trinity College, Oxford to research rave culture in Tbilisi. He was a 2021-2 College Writing Fellow for American Jewish culture magazine ‘Hey Alma’ and has also written for Oxford Review of Books. His music has been performed and workshopped by the Castalian Quartet, CHROMA Ensemble, the BBC Singers, the Kreutzer Quartet, the Consone Quartet and Trio Farben and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Oxford. His work has been supported by Arts Council England and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. He draws on influences from a range of artists, writers, photographers and musicians such as Dorothea Lang, Nan Goldin, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Agnes Varda, Elia Suleiman, Sarah Kane, Alan Ginsberg, György Ligeti, Steve Reich, Brigitta Muntendorf, Witold Lutosławski and Moondog. Adam has loved bringing new music into unusual spaces.