Born in 1973, ADAM B. SILVERMAN is a New York City – based composer whose works have recently gained national attention through performances by the New York City Opera, The Brooklyn Symphony, and chamber groups Eighth Blackbird, The Amelia Piano Trio, and Prism Saxophone Quartet, including performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, and the La Jolla (CA) Chamber Music Society. His music ranges from classical concert works (the piano trio “Sturm” and “String Quartet No. 2”) to rock-based music for live performers and electronics (“Strawberry Fields Continued” for percussion, cellos, and recording), conceptual music-theater (“Telemusic” for phones and percussion and “stars, cars, bars”), opera (“Korczak's Orphans”), and educational music. Of “Sturm,” The San Diego Reader wrote, “The music’s stylistic ancestors seemed to include Fauré and Chausson (for the textures, the harmonies, and the superbly idiomatic instrumental writing), and John Adams (for the relentless drive and dynamic repetitiveness).” The New York Times said, “The most surprising work was Adam Silverman’s “In Another Man’s Skin,” gurgling washes of sweet tonality, slightly out of kilter, slightly tongue-in-cheek.” Since 1998, he has directed the Minimum Security Composers Collective, a group of which he is co-founder. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition at Yale in 2003, and also studied music at the Vienna Musikhochschule and the University of Miami. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Music at City University of New York (CUNY).
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