Adam Pounds

Adam Pounds (born ) is a British composer and conductor, mostly active in Cambridge. Biography Adam Pounds is the first living British composer recorded by the Sinfonia of London and its conductor, John Wilson. Born in Walthamstow, in London, to Edward Pounds and Annie Pounds (née Crisp)., he moved to Cambridge with his wife, Dinah Pounds, and their two children, in 2000. Education As a child, Pounds was a chorister at St Michael’s Church, in Walthamstow. Pounds continued his studies at Goldsmiths’ College, graduating with a BMus (Hons) degree. In 2002, Pounds began studying for a MEd at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where his research focused on the decline of classical music provision in state schools. During his studies at Trinity Hall, Pounds joined the choir of Great St Mary’s, the University Church. He subsequently founded the Academy of Great St. Mary’s at the University Church in Cambridge, where some of his later works have received their debut. Pounds also conducts the Stapleford Choral Society. Between 2015 and 2021, then again from 2024, Pounds also served as the chairman of the Lennox Berkeley Society, which encourages the performance, study, recording and broadcast of his