Sturdivant Adams

Sturdivant Adams received an Mphil in Music Composition from the University of Oxford (2018) and an MM in Screen Scoring from the USC Thornton School of Music (2019). He has won a 2020 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the 2020 ScoreLive London Composer of the Year Award (1st place), the 201 ... 8 Royal Northern Sinfonia Young Composers Competition (1st place), the 2018 Oxford Philharmonic Composition Competition (1st place), and his film scores have been nominated for the 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards as well as the 2020 Phoenix Film Festival. Sturdivant's music has appeared in television series from studios including Sony Pictures Television, Hulu, and Adult Swim. As a composer of film and concert music, Sturdivant has worked with some of the most diverse artists in the world, including Blue Note Records Artist Ambrose Akinmusire, Eric Harland Voyager, the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, London's Orchestra for the Earth, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. His mentors have included composers Bruce Broughton, Christopher Young, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Robert Saxton. read more