Written in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles, The Dharma at Big Sur draws influence from Kerouac's novel Big Sur and the electric violin playing of Tracy Silverman, the violinist of t...
This concerto won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1995, the most prestigious music prize in the world. In three movements, it is prime example of Adams as the most compelling contemporar...
A musical autobiography, this work is an homage to the influence of Ives' music on the composer.
This propulsive concerto for string quartet and orchestra is built on fragments of Beethoven's late string quartets and other pieces.
Singstimme und Klavier - englisch.
Adams' father played alto saxophone in swing bands in the 1930s, and he credits this life-long exposure to the music of the jazz greats with the creation of his Saxophone Concerto, composed in 2013.
This is one of the most frequently requested and performed encores in American concert-halls.
