ADAM ZOLTY strives to create musical experiences that are in tune with his sensitivity to physical motion, inspiring, creating, and guiding his compositions. Adam’s music has been performed by many esteemed Canadian ensembles and performers, including NU:BC Ensemble, Turning Point Ensemble, Phoenix Chamber Choir, Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Bergmann Duo, UBC Symphony, the UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and Heidi Krutzen. Adam’s three movement piece for NU:BC Ensemble called Three Expressions for Piano Septet was performed during Vancouver ProMusica's Sonic Boom Festival in 2018 and received the Serge Garant Award for Young Composers at the Socan Awards. Recently, Adam was accepted into the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, CA, where he held a residency and composed a work called Variations on Angry Themes for Haruka Fujii on percussion and Leo Eguchi on cello.

​Adam is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Music Composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where he studies with Ted Hearne and Sean Friar. Adam received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition from the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Dorothy Chang, Stephen Chatman, Keith Hamel, and Jocelyn Morlock. Adam also studied composition and piano under his teacher and mentor Iman Habibi for over six years.

CURRENT AND UPCOMING PROJECTS

Variations on a Passacaglia for Orchestra
​Pastoral Suite for Cello

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The Millennium Composers Initiative represents composers from all around the world at the beginning of their professional careers, regardless of their aesthetic, style, or background. Creating fresh and engaging new music for all types of ensembles and mediums, we strive to push the limits of what defines music and art through experimental, conventional, and interdisciplinary means, providing new experiences for audiences and artists everywhere.

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