Adam Beiter

Upcoming events:

May 29 - June 14, 2026: Aurora Players presents Shakespeare in Love at Hamlin Park in East Aurora, N.Y., directed by Marc Ruffino with costumes by Kim Hicks. I'm proud to be performing as part of a live "tavern band" trio alongside my collaborators Kerri Rauschelbach and Ace Dean, presenting music by Paddy Cunneen rearranged for violin, guitar, mandolin, flute, oboe, recorder, and bodhran. Get tickets to see the show here.

June 9, 2026: For the fourth year in a row, I am honored to be returning to the St. James United Church of Christ Interfaith Pride Service in my hometown of Hamburg, N.Y.! I will offer some of my own piano compositions, as well as affirming, joyful hymns from several faith traditions.

June 20, 2026: Premiere of "Hidden Circuit" in Bled, Slovenia as part of Bled Contemporary Music Week Festival, conducted by Tilen Draksler. Find more information at the festival website here.

July 11, 2026: Performance at Anderson Inside Out, an event by the University of Buffalo Art Galleries. I'm excited to appear as a solo artist alongside other local acts such as the Sean Conrad Trio, Pocketship, and the Stephen Guerra Duo. Find more information here.

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Adam Beiter (he/him/his, b. 2003) is a composer, musician, and teacher hailing from Hamburg, NY and currently studying for a B.M. in Music Education and Composition at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music. 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 esteemed ensembles such as the Rosetta Arts Collective, the Bridge Music Collective, and loadbang. He has also composed for reading sessions with Rochester-based “classical fusion” ensemble FiveByFive 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 two 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!

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