Adam’s musical background extends beyond performance and pedagogy into composition, conducting, production and recording, and piano restoration.

In 2018, Adam founded Keys & Co., a piano-centric music school in Hoboken in which all students were required to participate in group piano, music theory and music history. Keys & Co. regularly presented House Concerts, in which students had the opportunity to perform for and occasionally alongside industry-leading musicians. In the Grand Opening and Inaugural House Concert, Alexandre Moutouzkine, co-chair of the piano department at Manhattan School of Music, offered a masterclass to Keys & Co. students before presenting a solo recital. Shortly after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Keys & Co. transitioned to entirely virtual learning.

In 2021, Adam released his debut album, “Homage to Liszt,” a self-produced and self-recorded selection of works by Franz Liszt, which can be found on all music streaming platforms.

Each of Adam’s subsequent releases feature original compositions, all self-recorded, self-produced, and mastered by Nate Jones.

Adam made his solo-piano debut with orchestra in Perugia, Italy in 2022, under the baton of Marius Stravinsky. While in Perugia, Adam performed alongside Markus Groh, 1st prize winner in the Queen Elizabeth Competition, in a fun and impromptu improvised duo recital. Adam performed solo piano in Tignes, France in 2021, returning to perform in 2022 and again in 2025.

In July 2022, Adam performed a solo recital at Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, in a concert sponsored by the Feldman Chamber Music Society. The same organization invited Adam to return to perform a chamber music concert with violinist Emily Ondracek-Peterson in September 2022.

From 2023 to 2025, Adam served as Director of The School of The Arts at Norfolk Academy and as Director of Lower School Orchestra. In two years under Adam’s leadership, enrollment in The School of The Arts doubled to include 60% of the Lower School student body. In December 2024, Adam conducted 100+ Lower School students from the combined orchestra, chorus and band ensembles in a self-authored arrangement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the work’s premiere. Later that month, Adam welcomed the Virginia Symphony Orchestra to campus for a holiday pops concert, joining the orchestra onstage on the celesta in “The Nutcracker.”

Most recently, in July 2026, Adam released “Dissolution,” a mini-album of original works for solo piano, with the scores set to be published later this year.

Adam lives in Charleston, South Carolina. A passionate and sought-after teacher, Adam maintains a private studio of piano and violin students of all ages and welcomes new students. If you’re interested in lessons, reach out here or email Adam directly at cliffordpianist@gmail.com.