 His music has been performed at the 26th Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, Bargemusic, the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, and the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France (where he taught in the summer of 1992), as well as by such ensembles as Cantus, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra.As a musicologist, Adams specializes in British music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.His essays have appeared in journals such as "The Musical Quarterly" and "Music & Letters".