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Owen Adams Biography

Hello, music lovers. I'm Owen Adams from the DMV. My parents taught me piano lessons when I was four years old. Eventually, I got pretty good after I discovered Keith Emerson at 14. I learned "Tarkus" by downloading the MIDI file into Cakewalk and printing it out, and I was determined to master it!

I kept practicing piano during middle and high school, and I was good enough to win 1st place in many of the local and statewide classical piano competitions. Besides that, I had loads of community service hours stacked up from working as a summer camp counselor, so I ended up with a pretty radical resume. I even won a national Washington Post Music & Arts scholarship for a video I made performing a super intense Ginastera sonata! At 18, I auditioned live at a few universities and received full, 4-year tuition scholarships from Howard, Towson, and the University of Maryland. As a UMD alumni, I have a degree in music composition. I chose composition over performance because I have always felt my most valuable skill is my ability to create NEW music and weave past and present influences into fresh works of sound. Anybody can play an instrument well, but where's your song?

During my four years of study at the University of Maryland College Park to obtain my BM in Music Composition, I composed music for various University groups, including a jazz wind ensemble piece, which I performed on a drum kit live with the wind ensemble, conducted by Dr. Sparks. I also performed with the Wind Ensemble, playing piano and percussion for three semesters. During my junior year, I also composed an electronic string quartet piece for the Kronos Quartet featuring an original accompaniment track, which premiered at the Gildenhorn Concert Hall in 2011.

Since my college experience, I have felt strongly about actively supporting arts and music in my community, especially for homeschooled and public school students who may miss the privilege of arts instruction at a young age. I teach piano lessons at my studio in Bowie every day and continue my music Ministry at Adams United Methodist Church and Largo Community Church, playing piano with the choir.

I've released my 10th studio album, "Manifesto," as a tribute to the great keyboard players who inspired me at a young age. It is an hour-long roadmap of my favorite genres, instruments, and concepts.

Through my education, community involvement, piano performance, and video production abilities, I hope to generate lots of beautiful music and help the young kids of today deal with their unique struggles by embracing music and finding their own voice in a confusing modern world.

After Manifesto, I released two new projects in 2020, the "Unfiltered EP" as well as "Get Moving." Unfiltered is a live improvised recording session that took place in February 2020 for about a week, every single night. Each song was recorded live on video, which you can see on my "Watch" page. "Get Moving" is an instrumental album containing about an hour of high-energy dance music inspired by my favorite techno and house music producers of the 90s and early 2000s!