COMPOSER

CLASSICAL / BALLET / OPERA

Canadian composer Adam Vincent Clarke crafts viscerally narrative scores for ballet, opera, and music theatre, blending folkloric colour with what he calls ‘gewaltsame Schönheit’—violent beauty. Based in Antwerp, his music has been heard at Sadler’s Wells, Dutch National Ballet, BalletX, Origen Festival, and with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. In 2026–27 he writes for the HERMESensemble / Concertgebouw Brugge, Annabelle Ochoa Lopez, and Tiroler Landestheater. Clarke is a two-time ECMA nominee.

Group of performers, and composer Adam Vincent Clarke, holding hands on stage at the end of a performance of Nicola Wills 'Fiction'. Origen Festival 2025.

Portraits by Nicola Wills, Photos of ‘Est-Ouest’ Nathan Ishar, Photos of ‘Fiction’ by Admill Kuyler Photos of ‘Hang in there, Baby’ by Rocio Chacon, Photos of ‘Two People in Love Never Shake Hands’ by All performance photography © Bill Hebert, Alexander Iziliaev, Chris Kendig Photography, or Vikki Sloviter, unless otherwise noted