Brant Adams: Bio & Choral Music | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

Brant Adams

Originally from Gallipolis, Ohio, Brant Adams (b. 1955) holds a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from Capital University (Columbus, Ohio), a master of music degree in music theory from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in theory from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied composition with Donald Grantham. He has taught at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and since 1987 has taught at Oklahoma State University where he currently serves as professor and coordinator of the theory/composition area and academic advisor.

In 1992 Dr. Adams was awarded the Distinguished Composer of the Year Award by the Music Teachers National Association for his Masque and Bacchanalia for woodwind quintet and piano. In 1994 he wrote the incidental music for the off-Broadway play Exchange produced at the Soho Repertory Theatre in New York City. In 2000 he arranged and orchestrated Sing for the Cure, a compilation of choral compositions of ten composers from around the US commissioned by the Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

His compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations have been performed and recorded by orchestras and choral ensembles in England, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, the former Czech Republic, the Middle East, and across the United States. In addition to his choral work, he is widely known for his orchestrations and instrumental arrangements of sacred music.

Dr. Adams continues to work in the recording and publishing industry as a producer, arranger, and orchestrator, and conductor, primarily in the area of sacred music.

Brant Adams has 13 titles published with Santa Barbara.
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Away in a Manger

SATB

SBMP 121

Down by the Riverside

SBMP 231

Down by the Riverside

SATB

SBMP 232

Down by the Riverside

TTBB

SBMP 678

Exsultate justi in Domino

SBMP 171

Exsultate justi in Domino

SATB

SBMP 172

Exsultate justi in Domino

TTBB

SBMP 173

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

SATB

SBMP 163

Here we come a-caroling

SATB

SBMP 90

Hæc dies

SATB

SBMP 389

Ose Shalom

TTBB

SBMP 1187

Sing We Now of Christmas

SSA

SBMP 141

Torah Orah

SBMP 324

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