STEPHEN ADAMS

Born in 1963, Stephen Adams is a composer, improviser, voice, sound and movement artist with nineteen years experience as ABC Classic’s Australian Music Curator/Producer (2004-23). Stephen studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe (1983-86) and Richard Vella (2003-4). He has created music for choirs, rock bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras, and theatre, plus studio works for radio and other media.

Stephen improvises with voice, body, flute, field recordings, microphones, radios and other acoustic and lo-fi electronic objects. Large-form works include acapella chamber opera Sydney Theatre Dreaming (1992), memory pieces for choir (1995), and vocal electro-acoustic score for The Opera Project’s The Audience and other Psychopaths (2004). His Piano in a Field of Recordings was selected Australian work, 2022 ISCM World Music Days.

In 2025, Stephen received the APRA/AMCOS Individual Luminary Award for “outstanding contribution and dedication to Australian music as a broadcaster, producer, composer and advocate”.

Performances by CAM:

Saturday 14 February: Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
‘Sydney Dreaming’ (SATB) UK Premiere