Discipline: Music Composition

Adam Gwon

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Sunnyside, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Adam Gwon worked on musical commissions from Broadway Across America and the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. His Off-Broadway productions include Ordinary Days and Old Jews Telling Jokes. He was the winner of the 2008 Fred Ebb Award, honoring excellence in musical theater songwriting.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Adam Gwon worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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