Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams (b. 1985) is an American composer, sound designer, music educator and multi-instrumentalist, son of the composer John Adams, and a Mead Composer-in-Residence with The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (since 2015). A self-taught jazz bassist, Adams was born and raised in San Francisco Bay Area. He studied composition with Mark Applebaum and Erik Ulman at the Stanford University, as well as electroacoustic music…