Adam Roberts
Biography
Adam Roberts鈥 music has been performed internationally by ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, the JACK Quartet, le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Callithumpian Consort, Earplay, fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Transient Canvas, violist Garth Knox, and Guerilla Opera and at festivals such as Wien Modern (Vienna), Tanglewood, the Biennale Musique en Scene (Lyons), and the 2009 ISCM World Music Days (Sweden).
Awards for Roberts鈥 music include a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fromm Commission, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Bernard Rogers Prize (Eastman), the New York Bohemians Prize (Harvard), the Andr茅 Chevillion-Yvonne Bonnaud Prize from the Orl茅ans Piano Competition, the Earplay Donald Aird Award, the Christoph and Stefan Kaske Fellowship from the Wellesley Composers Conference, the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Blodgett Prize (Harvard) as well as other academic scholarships and awards. Commissions have come from the Callithumpian Consort, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, pianist Nolan Pearson, the Tanglewood Music Center, Guerilla Opera, and others.
Roberts鈥 music has been called 鈥渁 powerful success,鈥 鈥渁rresting,鈥 and 鈥渁mazingly lush鈥 (the Boston Musical Intelligencer); 鈥渁n attractive mix of the familiar and exotic鈥 and 鈥渙therworldly鈥 (Boston Classical Review); and 鈥渋nvigorating鈥 with a 鈥減ersistent melodic urge鈥 (American Academy of Arts and Letters citation).
Roberts obtained a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music in 2003 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. Roberts also studied at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 2007-2008 on a Harvard University Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. Prior to joining the faculty at 两性色午夜, Roberts taught at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Istanbul Technical University鈥檚 Center for Advanced Studies in Music, and the University of Georgia鈥檚 Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Roberts鈥 first disc, 鈥淟eaf Metal,鈥 was released on Tzadik Records in January, 2014. Other recordings of Roberts鈥 work can be found on the New Focus Recordings and Lila M眉zik labels.
Learn more about 两性色午夜's Music Theory and Composition programs