Adam Harrington

Composer, Arranger

Adam Harrington (b. 2000, Houston) is a composer and arranger studying composition (MM ‘26) at New York University with Justin Dello Joio, Robert Honstein, and Julia Wolfe. Adam received a degree in horn performance (BM ‘22) from the University of Houston and studied with Gavin Reed and Robert Johnson. While at the University of Houston, Adam also studied composition with Rob Smith and Marcus Maroney.

Adam’s work can be characterized rich and bright textures which serve as backdrops for motivic development. He tends to work with limited material but impose subtle variations in rhythm and timbre to small motifs which are deconstructed into their parts and layered against each other. Additionally, his background in the horn and enthusiastic love for John Williams has led to a strong emphasis in brass writing.

Recent performances include two of Adam’s concert band works Starry Night (Sugar Land Winds) and Road to the Sun (TMEA Region IX Symphonic Band), Metamorphosis (Adam Harrington) for solo horn and fixed media, and K67 (Blaffer Art Museum) for fixed media. Current projects include an orchestral version of Starry Night, a work called Concrete (which uses various brass instruments in solo layered on top of each other electronically), a large-scale work for concert band called Sinfonia, a brass quintet titled Supercell, a work for percussion sextet, and a trio for horn, violin, and piano. Past projects include Cathedral (for solo horn), The Fox and the Wolf (for flute and oboe), A Cello is an Ocean (for solo cello), …To Wander Away (for string quartet), and several arrangements for concert band.