Adam Silverman
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Adam Benjamin Silverman (born in 1973, Atlanta, GA) is a composer of contemporary classical music. His works include the opera Korczak's Orphans (to a libretto by Susan Gubernat, based on the life of Polish Holocaust martyr Janusz Korczak), chamber and orchestral music, and music for the theater. With composers Dennis DeSantis, Roshanne Etezady, and Ken Ueno, he founded the Minimum Security Composers Collective.
Beginning his musical career as a rock guitarist and songwriter, he went on to study classical composition at the Vienna Musikhochschule and Yale with composers such as Kurt Schwertsik, Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick. As a student, he was especially interested in the musical system of microtonal just intonation, and studied closely with composer Ben Johnston. His compositions Durham (Triangle Quartet) (1996, for string quartet) and Just Music Makes Me Lose My Temper (1995, for electric guitar, keyboard, and percussion) are just intonation compositions.
In addition to Korczak's Orphans, His principal compositions include Sturm (2002, for piano trio), three string quartets (1996, 2000, 2005), In Another Man's Skin (2000, for sextet eighth blackbird), Hard Knocks (1999, for orchestra) and stars, cars, bars (1999, for speaking marimbist, based on a passage from Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita")
[edit] Recordings
- 2006: "Lara Downes: "Dream of Me." Tritone Records. [1]
- Includes Adam Silverman: Nocturnes and Reveries.
- 1998: "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project." Frog Peak Records.
- Includes Adam Silverman: Credit is the History of Words Without History.
- 1998: "New Music: Young Composers." Cane Records.
- Includes Adam Silverman: Just Music Makes Me Lose My Temper.
