Adam Adov was born in Sydney, Australia, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Piano Performance with Jon Kimura Parker at Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. He previously studied with Michael Lewin at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he was awarded the 2023 Churchill Scholarship.
From the age of 10, Adam studied with Natalya Andreeva in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s “Rising Stars” program, earning the AMusA diploma (2015) and the LMusA diploma (2019), both with distinction. He also studied in Moscow with Mikhail Petukhov.
He won first prize in the Eastern Connecticut Concerto Competition (2024), first prize in the New York International Music Competition (2022), the Special Liszt Prize in the Carles & Sofia Piano Competition (2023), second prize in the Badura-Skoda International Piano Competition (2023), and first prize in the Virtuoso International Music Awards (2024). He was also the winner of both the 2024 Boston Conservatory Concerto Competition, performing with the Boston Conservatory Orchestra at Jordan Hall and the Eastern Connecticut Concerto Competition, performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada.
Adam has recorded works by Bach for Fine Music FM National Radio, performed in New York’s Klavierhaus Salon Concert Series, and appeared in the Medici TV documentary on the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has participated in masterclasses with Yukine Kuroki, Lindsay Garritson, Roberto Plano, Dimitri Toufexis, Boaz Sharon, and Lucinda Carver.