Tom Adams

Tom Adams

Tom Adams is a composer, producer, songwriter and electronic musician from Cambridge, England. His work draws on nature and combines intimate piano writing with larger, expansive soundscapes. He begins playing piano at a young age and develops an approach built around improvisation rather than reading notation, then later adds guitar and starts writing his own songs. His singing is noted for a voice that is compared with Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley.

Background and training

Adams studies music at the University of York, where he works with both classical and electronic music. That mixture becomes central to his style, which moves between piano-based composition, classical influence and electronic production.

Work and collaborations

He remixes Max Richter’s Berlin By Overnight, released by Deutsche Grammophon, and composes the original soundtrack for the Universal Pictures film The Knife That Killed Me. He also releases the self-issued EP In The Constant Noise.