About me
Adrienne Torf’s musical life includes working with dance and theater companies, touring and recording with singers and, most significantly, a nineteen-year creative collaboration with African-American poet, essayist and activist June Jordan. Together they wrote numerous works for performance including their full-length stage musical/documentary opera Bang Bang Uber Alles, produced in staged readings in New York City and in a full production at Seven Stages Theater in Atlanta.
THEATER (Selected): Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience co-derived with Raymond O. Caldwell at Theater Alliance, Washington DC, 2022 & 2024; 2023 Helen Hayes Theater Washington Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical Adaptation.
RECORDINGS (Selected): Original compositions for piano and synthesizers, Brooklyn From the Roof (1986) and Two Hands Open (2003) (both NAIRD “best of” in the year of their release) and June Jordan and Adrienne Torf Collaboration: Selected Works, 1983-2000 (2003).