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Byron Adams new article content ... Byron Adams (b. 1955) is an American composer, musicologist and a professor. He composed music in genres including chamber music, solo piano music, choral music ,and orchestral music. Adams is an openly gay composer.

Biography Adams was born in Florida in 1955. He started on the piano and also composed at a young age. He frequently performed with the local symphony orchestra as the second keyboardist. Later, he frequently play piano duet with famous musicologist Philip Brett.

Adams finished his Bachelor of Music from Jacksonville University with magna cum laude. He studied with pianist Mary Lou Wesley Krosnick and composer Gurney Kennedy. He continued his study of composition at University of Southern California with composer Morten Lauridsen and later received his doctoral degree from Cornell University where he studied with composer Karel Husa and musicologist William W. Austin.

Adams is currently an Associate Professor of Music at University of California, Riverside. Prior to the post, Professor Adams was a Lecturer in Music at Cornell University from 1985 to 1987. Also, during the summer of 1992, he taught aught solfégé, composition and conducted the chorale at the Conservatoire Américain du Musique in Fontainebleau, France.

Composition

Adams has had his music performed in Europe including 26th "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, the Leith Hill Festival in England, the Conservatoire Americain in Foutainbleau,France.