Judah adashi biography

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A committed musical organizer, advocate and educator, Mr. Adashi is the founder and director of the Evolution Contemporary Music Series, noted for having “.
Judah E. Adashi (born 1974).

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“Adashi is…a particularly twenty-first-century type of American composer. His personal, emotional and earnest music is meant to connect plainly and directly to his audience. Neither self-consciously hip nor ‘Who Cares If You Listen’ difficult, it speaks with unaffected frankness. It is unabashedly sincere. ”

The music of composer and pianist Judah Adashi is guided by a belief that the creation and performance of new music can bear witness to injustice, create space for empathy, and serve as a call to action.

Dr. Adashi’s compositions are grounded in the classical tradition and imbued with soul and pop influences ranging from Nina Simone to Björk. Tim Smith of The Baltimore Sun has written: “it’s not easy to straddle genres; Adashi does so with naturalness and expressive impact.” His piece my heart comes undone (2014) has been widely performed, receiving attention from Alex Ross in The New Yorker – “a rapt meditation…in my experience, music has never seemed closer to nature” – and from Björk herself, via Twitter: “Judah Adashi…listened to ‘Unravel’ &

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Judah E. Adashi (born 1974)

2004 28-29

Songs and Dances of Macondo for Wind Quintet

2001 25-26

Eight Haiku by Richard Wright (for violin and marimba)

2005 29-30

Songs of Kabir (for flute and guitar)

2006 30-31

Musica dell’Aria (for harp and string quartet)

2007 31-32

The Dark Hours (for bassoon and piano)

2014 38-39

my heart comes undone (for 4-part open instrumentation)

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Judah E. Adashi

Said to be "embarked on a promising career" (Washington Post), composer Judah E. Adashi (b. 1975) has been honored with awards, grants and commissions from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ASCAP and BMI Foundations, Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum and the Aspen Music Festival, as well as three residencies at the Yaddo artist colony.

A committed musical organizer, advocate and educator, Mr. Adashi is the founder and director of the Evolution Contemporary Music Series, noted for having “elevated and enriched Baltimore’s new music scene enormously” (Baltimore Sun). Mr. Adashi is also on the composition and music theory faculty at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Adashi’s principal composition teachers have been Nicholas Maw and John Harbison. He holds degrees from Yale University and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

http://www.judahadashi.com/