Mark Adamo

Mark Adamo (born August 1, 1962) is an American composer, librettist, and professor of music composition at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He was born in Philadelphia. Early life and education A native of Willingboro Township, New Jersey, Adamo attended Holy Cross High School in Delran Township, New Jersey. He attended New York University, where he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music cum laude in composition in 1990 from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was awarded the Theodore Presser prize for outstanding undergraduate achievement in composition. Career At New York City Opera, he curated the contemporary opera workshop series VOX: Showcasing American Composers. Adamo served as master artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in May 2003. He has directed productions of his Little Women in Cleveland and Milwaukee, both of which were cited as among the best classical-music events of the year by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, respectively; and he has annot