John Clement Adams (born November 28, 1947, in Attleboro, Massachusetts [1] ) is an American composer and educator.
Adams studied music at Harvard, receiving a B.A. in 1969 and a Ph.D in 1982. [2] [3] His teachers included Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim, Ivan Tcherepnin, and Tison Street. His thesis was the composition Electric Wake. He continued studies at Tanglewood with Jacob Druckman, Alan Stout, and Seymour Shifrin. In 1972 he became a faculty member of the Boston Conservatory, and retired in 2001 as chair of the composition department. [4] [5] He was also a visiting lecturer at Harvard. [6]
Among his awards include the B.M.I. Award in 1970, the Margaret Grant Award from Tanglewood in 1974 (when he was a composition fellow [7] ), and the 1979 UMass/Boston award in music composition (which resulted in performance at the 2nd annual Harbor Festival "Winds and Airs - Music to Celebrate Spring" on UMass Boston's campus in April 1979). [4] [8]
Some of his compositions have been published by Schirmer. [9] Among his students are Steven David Stalzer, [10] Bonnie Cochran, [11] William Eldridge, [12] Robin Baker, Gary Lloyd Noland, [13] Yuriko Kojima, [14] Pasquale Tassone, [15] Hau-yee Ng, [16] Alejandro Madrid, [17] and Hayato Hirose. [18] [19]
There are at least two other composers named John Adams, which has led to several points of confusion, including mistaken festival programming and incorrect authority control attributions: John Coolidge Adams (who goes professionally by John Adams), and John Luther Adams. Further complicating the matter is that both John C. Adams studied at Harvard at the same time, including having had their theses overseen by Leon Kirchner. [7] [20] [21] [22] [23]
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