Byron Adams

Byron Adams (born 1955) is an American musicologist, composer, and conductor. Education Adams received his bachelor of music degree from Jacksonville University, his master of music degree from the University of Southern California, and his doctor of musical arts degree from Cornell University. Career Adams is a composer of tonal music. His music was performed at the Warsaw Autumn, Bargemusic, the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, and the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France (where he taught in the summer of 1992), as well as by such ensembles as Cantus, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra. As a musicologist, Adams specializes in British and French music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. and Music & Letters. In 2007, he was appointed scholar-in-residence and a member of the program committee for the Bard Music Festival, for which he was the editor of Edward Elgar and His World (Princeton, 2007). He also gave pre-concert lectures and contributed program notes. Other notable organizations for which he has written programs notes include the Philadelphia Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra, among others. I