Adam Gorb was born in 1958 and studied Music at Cambridge University and Composition at the Academy. His compositions include operas, orchestral, ensemble, chamber, solo and choral works, and have been performed, broadcast and recorded worldwide. In the UK, his compositions have had performances at contemporary music festivals in Huddersfield, Cheltenham, Manchester, Hampstead, Highgate, Spitalfields and Canterbury, and he has had concerts entirely devoted to his music in the UK, USA and Canada. His concert band works have won prizes in the UK and abroad, including three British Composer Awards.
CDs devoted to his work were released in 2010, 2011 and 2016.
His first opera, Anya 17 (2012), has been performed in the UK, Romania, Germany and the USA. His second opera, The Path to Heaven, was premiered in Leeds and Manchester in 2018 and received two further productions in the USA in 2019 and 2020. A CD of 24 Preludes for piano played by Clare Hammond was released in March 2022.
Gorb is Head of School of Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music.