Biography
Ked Adams (b. 2000) is composer and performer currently residing in New York, New York. She graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with a Master of Composition in May 2025, and University of North Florida in May of 2022 with a Bachelor in Woodwind Performance. Adams has extensive performance experience in many kinds of ensembles, including wind symphonies, symphonic orchestras, saxophone quartets, pit orchestras, and more. She has also been awarded commission prizes at MSM, including one for Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, as well as outstanding musicianship multiple times at UNF, as well as being selected as a winner of the 2022 Annual Concerto Competition.
More on the nature of music
I am interested in the way interpretation and experience resonates uniquely to every listener, performer, and composer. At the beginning of my studies that took me deeper into the nature of music, I was interested in structural parallels between music and nature, but I am now interested in perception; formal objects and qualities; and unique expression across unique groups of individuals. I have explored (I am never completely content, though) the depth of the nature of resonance and tuning in music, and believe that all systems of sound and lack thereof are valid in the creation of music.
