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About Samuel Adams Composer
- Samuel Adams (born December 30, 1985) is an American composer.
- He was born in San Francisco, California.
- He is a recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. Adams grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he performed double bass and studied composition and electroacoustics at Stanford University; he later studied with Martin Bresnick.
- His music draws on his experiences in a diverse array of disciplines including classical forms, microsound, noise, improvised music and field recording.Adams has received commissions from New World Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Carnegie Hall, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and has collaborated with performers such as Emanuel Ax, Sarah Cahill, Karen Gomyo, Jennifer Koh, Anthony Marwood, Joyce Yang and conductors such as David Robertson (conductor), Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Michael Tilson Thomas.
- He is currently one of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's two composers-in-residence, having been jointly named to the post with Elizabeth Ogonek in 2015.He is the son of composer John Adams and photographer Deborah O'Grady.
