Byron Adams

His music was performed at the Warsaw Autumn,[1] Bargemusic,[2] the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles,[3] and the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France (where he taught in the summer of 1992),[4] as well as by such ensembles as Cantus,[5] the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra,[6] and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

[7] As a musicologist, Adams specializes in British and French music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

[10] 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).

[20][21] As a composer Adams won the grand prize of the Delius Festival Composition Competition in 1977.

[25] In 2008, the association instituted the Byron Adams Student Travel Grant, a fellowship offering assistance to conference presenters.