COMPOSER – PIANIST
Adrienne Torf
Music at the meeting point of piano, poetry, and theater — from solo albums to documentary opera, and the awesome, difficult work of love.
Adrienne’s piece “Opening,” from her new album Here I Am, now opens Tara Brach’s podcasts — introducing the widely loved meditation and mindfulness teacher on her website and podcast apps.
ON STAGE
Upcoming events
Jan 30 – Mar 29 · 2026
Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience
Fountain Theatre — Los Angeles, CA · Jan 30 – Mar 29
The Freight — Berkeley, CA · Feb 24, one night only
Co-devised by Raymond O. Caldwell and Adrienne Torf
Mar 20 – Apr 12 · 2026
For Women Serving Time
IN Series world premiere — opera-theater
Washington, DC · Mar 20–22
Baltimore, MD · Apr 10–12
Music by Adrienne Torf · libretto by Fatemeh Keshavarz · directed by Timothy Nelson
May 16 · 2026
The Awesome Difficult Work of Love
Flint, MI — details forthcoming
A community-participation performance weaving spoken word, music, movement, and visual art
Previously produced in Madison, San Francisco, and Sedona
RECORDINGS
The Albums
Original compositions for piano and synthesizer on Adrienne’s own label, A Bongo Music.
BIOGRAPHY
About Adrienne
Adrienne Torf, composer and pianist, has three solo albums of original compositions for piano and synthesizer: Here I Am (2025), Two Hands Open (2003) and Brooklyn from the Roof (1986), all on her label A Bongo Music.
Adrienne and poet, teacher and activist June Jordan were artistic collaborators for nineteen years, until Jordan’s passing in 2002. Together they wrote their full-length documentary opera Bang Bang Über Alles and numerous works for performance by themselves and by ensembles, recorded on Collaboration: Selected Works, 1983–2000 (A Bongo Music, 2000).
Adrienne and playwright and director Raymond O. Caldwell co-devised Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience. The show ran at Theater Alliance in Washington, DC in 2022 and 2024, and premieres on the west coast at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, January–March 2026. She and Caldwell are in the early stages of writing a musical about her successful 37-year search for birth family.
Adrienne recently composed the score For Women Serving Time (libretto by Fatemeh Keshavarz) under a commission from IN Series Opera, Washington DC, premiering in March–April 2026 in Washington DC and Baltimore. Her other theater works include The Awesome Difficult Work of Love, a community participation performance piece slated for Flint, MI in 2026 and previously produced in Madison, WI (2008), San Francisco (2012) and Sedona, AZ (2022).
Long a women’s music audience favorite for her piano work with Holly Near and Linda Tillery, Adrienne’s keyboard work appears on more than a dozen commercially released albums by Holly Near, Cris Williamson, Meg Christian, Ferron, Kay Gardner, and others.
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Contact
For bookings, press, licensing, or anything else — send a note and Adrienne’s team will get back to you.