Adam Holmes is a Brooklyn-based musician and artist whose performances have been praised as “immaculately finessed” (Musical America) and compositions as “mesmerizing” (The Road to Sound) and “otherworldly” (New York Music Daily). He is an avid percussionist, drummer, and composer interested in creating and discovering sounds for himself and others.
Adam is the drummer for post-rock band Vines as well as singer-songwriter Girl Named Golden, and performs live with metal band Lamniformes. As a composer, Adam writes a vast array of solo works, and has collaborated with groups such as Metropolis Ensemble, Desdemona, and Ensemble Ipse as well as bassist Will Yager. His latest release, Music for a Small Shelter with Desdemona, was described as “one of the sweetest sets of the season” (a closer listen) and “a mix of subtle, vibrant and eerie, but soothing” (Bklyner). His latest score for film, Peter Campbell’s short Variations on a Theme is currently being shown in festivals on 3 continents.
An active performer in the classical music scene, he has appeared as a soloist at the Bang on a Can Marathon, where he was lauded for his “sweetly shimmered” performance (The New York Times), and performs regularly as a solo experimental artist.
Adam lives in Gowanus, Brooklyn, with his wife Cassie and their dog Olive, where he spends his days tuning and maintaining pianos.
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