John Luther Adams

John Luther Adams was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and attended the California Institute of the Arts before moving to Alaska, where he lived until 2014. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music and a Grammy Award for his orchestral comosition Become Ocean, which was premiered by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2013. Since leaving Alaska, Adams and his wife Cynthia have lived in New York City, and in the deserts of Mexico, Chile, and the southwestern United States.