Adam Clifford

Biography

Adam Scott Clifford is an energetic pianist, violinist, composer, and teacher with the mission to break boundaries in and beyond music. Adam’s musical background extends beyond performance and pedagogy into composition, conducting, production and recording, and piano restoration. Adam’s first album, a self-produced and self-recorded selection of works by Franz Liszt, was released in August 2021 and can be found on all music streaming platforms. In December 2021, Adam will release his second and third albums, each of which exclusively feature his own compositions.

In 2018, Adam founded Keys & Company School of Music, a piano-centric music school in a high traffic storefront in Hoboken, New Jersey. Adam has performed extensively throughout Virginia as well as in New York City, Hoboken, Miami, Charleston, and most recently in Tignes, France. In 2017, Adam was invited by The Williamsburg Music Club to premiere “The Seven Ages of Man,” a suite for solo piano by Williamsburg, Virginia-based composer Stephen Moore. An accomplished violinist, Adam served as concertmaster of the Virginia Beach Chamber Orchestra from 2010-12, as well as assistant concertmaster from 2009-10. Adam’s primary teachers include pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine and violinist Dora Marshall Mullins. Adam lives in Norfolk, Virginia and enjoys spending time outdoors with his two Jack Russell terriers, Alfie and Clara.

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