Adam Stanović

Adam Stanović

Adam Stanović started making electronic music some twenty years ago, and has since won prizes, residencies, and mentions/finalists around the world, including: Prix CIME (France); IMEB (France); Metamophoses (Belgium); Destellos (Argentina); Contemporanea (Italy); Computer Space (Bulgaria); Ise-Shima (Japan); SYNC (Russia); Musica Viva (Portugal); Musica Nova (Czech Republic); Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (Switzerland); KEAR (USA); MusicAcoustica (China); Prix Russolo (France), Red Jasper Award (USA); Uljus (Serbia). Adam has worked in the composition studios of the IMEB (France); Musiques et Recherches (Belgium); VICC (Sweden); EMS (Sweden); LCM (UK); CMMAS (Mexico); Holst House (UK), Mise En Place (USA), Bowling Green (USA) and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Australia).

Adam’s music has been performed in over 500 festivals and concerts around the world, including many of the most significant contemporary music events in the field. Adam’s music has represented the United Kingdom at two major international festivals, and has featured in wide range of popular music contexts, including performances at the Glastonbury Festival and appearances on the BBC. Many of his pieces have been published, with works now available on 15 different labels (Elektramusic; Taukey; Sargasso; ICMA, among others). He has three solo albums, with two on the Empreintes Digitales label.

Adam is regularly invited to talk about electronic music, and has given lectures and presentations at many world-leading universities and conservatoires, including Harvard University, The University of Oxford, New England Conservatory, Swedish Royal College of Music, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, The Sydney Conservatorium. As with his numerous journal articles and book chapters, his talks often address compositional methods and aesthetic preoccupations, analytical approaches to electronic music, the nature of performance interpretation and authenticity, the nature of digitised music, and reflections on the many philosophical dilemmas that electronic music seems to produce.

Adam is currently Programme Director (Head of Department) for Sound and Music, London College of Communication, University of the Arts. For more information, see: www.adamstanovic.com