About Adam Scime
Born 1982. Adam Scime is a double-bassist and composer.
Adam Scime (born 1982) is a Canadian composer and double bassist based in Toronto, Ontario.
Early life and education Scime was born in Hamilton.
Career Scime played bass on Jim MacDonald's 2005 album Weights and Measures.
In 2012 Adam's piece Mirage earned third prize in the Sir Ernest MacMillan category of the Annual Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada Foundation Awards for Young Composers. Also in 2012 Adam's piece After the rioT was awarded the Karen Keiser Prize in Canadian Music. He has received commissioning grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council that include works for Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, The Esprit Orchestra, Array Music, and New Music Concerts.
In 2015 Scime won the Canadian Music Centre Toronto Emerging Composer Award.
Scime became an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, and serves as music director for FAWN Chamber Creative in Toronto.
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Canadian composer and double bassist (born 1982)
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