Adam Scott Clifford

Adam Scott Clifford is an energetic pianist, violinist, composer, and teacher with a love for improvisation. Adam’s musical background extends beyond performance and pedagogy into composition, conducting, music production and recording, and piano restoration. Adam’s first album, a self-produced and self-recorded selection of works by Franz Liszt, was released in August 2021, followed by his second, self-titled album in 2022.
In 2018, Adam founded Keys & Company School of Music, a piano-centric music school in a high traffic storefront in Hoboken, New Jersey. Adam has performed extensively throughout the United States, with upcoming concerts (summer 2022) in Tignes, France and Perugia, Italy.
In 2017, Adam was invited by The Williamsburg Music Club to premiere “The Seven Ages of Man,” a suite for solo piano by Williamsburg-based composer Stephen Moore.
An accomplished violinist, Adam served as concertmaster of the Virginia Beach Chamber Orchestra from 2010-12, as well as assistant concertmaster from 2009-10.
Adam’s primary teachers include pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine and violinist Dora Marshall Mullins. Adam lives in Norfolk, Virginia and enjoys spending time outdoors with his two Jack Russell terriers, Alfie and Clara.
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