Adam Beiter

Adam Beiter (he/him/his, b. 2003) writes music for and about paintings, places, people, and time. Hailing from Hamburg, NY, he studied music education and composition at SUNY Potsdam's historic Crane School of Music, where he began to find his voice as a multi-disciplinary educator, composer, performer, and collaborator. He is now a graduate student in composition and a teaching assistant at Stony Brook University. Incorporating a wide variety of influences such as contemporary classical, folk, jazz, and musical theatre, his music seeks to uplift the unique voices of its performers and explore themes of community, identity, and resilience. 

Adam began his compositional journey at a young age: at 10 years old, he was selected as a finalist in the 2014 NYSSMA Young Composers Honors Concert with a duet for violin and cello. While a student at Hamburg High School, he prepared numerous orchestral compositions and arrangements for the school’s Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, and contributed original music for three one-act musicals with original scripts written by fifth graders at Union Pleasant Elementary School between 2018 and 2020. In 2021, he released the song cycle A Gentle Loving Kind: 14 Love Songs in a concept album format, featuring his own original musical settings of poems written by his grandfather.

Adam is an avid proponent of collaborative experiences in composition. He has helped several colleagues bring their poetry to life through musical settings, and has collaborated with other electronic composers to create fixed media concert works and short film scores. He has composed incidental music for religious services and live theatrical productions, for ensembles such as the Rosetta Arts Collective, the Bridge Music Collective, and the .abeceda [New Music Ensemble]. His works have been read and performed by FiveByFive, loadbang, Mivos Quartet, Garden State Singers, and the Crane Symphony Orchestra, and in April 2024 his piece for SATB choir and nyckelharpa, “Jag”, was premiered by Crane’s first-year choral ensemble Hosmer Choir. Adam has also done work as an engraver, transcriber, and arranger, contributing arrangements to three consecutive years of the Lougheed-Kofoed Arts Festival’s student-led Musical Theatre Showcase. Adam’s original score for the award-winning film We Are The Vessels Of Each Other’s Melancholies was screened at Cinefest Fairfield and the New York-Long Island Film Festival, and his score for the animated film Shelved received a screening at Buffalo's historic North Park Theater.

Adam has studied with Timothy Sullivan, Jerod Sommerfeldt, Phil Salathé, Ivette Herryman Rodríguez, Chelsea Loew, Wang Ziyu, and many others. He expresses immense gratitude to all of his teachers and mentors for their guidance and support!