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Biography

Said to be "embarked on a promising career" (Washington Post), composer Judah E. Adashi (b. 1975) has been honored with awards and commissions from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ASCAP and BMI Foundations, and the Aspen Music Festival, as well as three residencies at the Yaddo artist colony. Mr. Adashi is on the composition and music theory faculty at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He is also the founder and director of Baltimore’s Evolution Contemporary Music Series, noted for having “added a welcome dose of newness to the local concert scene” (Baltimore Sun). Mr. Adashi’s principal composition teachers have been Nicholas Maw and John Harbison. He holds degrees from Yale University and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.