Home Turf:
South Africa; currently based in Los Angeles
Education:
I am self-taught. No formal composition study at all.
Instruments:
Piano and keyboards are my main instruments and I use guitars and custom-made string instruments a lot, but I have been known to play whatever is lying around (rulers, jars, rolls of tape) literally.
Musical Influences:
John Williams, Dave Grusin, John Powell, John Barry, Alberto Iglesias, Ennio Morricone to name only a very few.
Adam Schiff is a South African-born composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music and film scores explore the subtle, emotionally attuned layers of composition.
Now based in Los Angeles, his distinct musical style has been featured across numerous shows and films. His credits include The New Generation (Amazon Prime), Secrets Of Our Universe with Tim Peake (BBC), The Moment - How Sports Changed the World (Red Bull Studios), and Interrogation Raw (A&E); as well as Netflix originals such as The Package and Alien Xmas, a holiday feature from the Chiodo Brothers. He has contributed to trailers for The Amazing Spider-Man and global campaigns for brands such as Coca-Cola.
Adam began his scoring career at the award-winning studio Machine Head Music & Sound Design. At age 19, he toured Africa and Europe as a Music Director for major artists and co-wrote the election campaign song for Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress during South Africa’s first democratic election.