Adam Hajossy Dedic

Adam Hajossy Dedic, M.Mus., DiS (b. 1987) is a multiple award-winning professional concert and film score composer based in New York City, known for his inventive orchestral writing and a distinctive compositional voice rooted in European modernism and folklorism. He began his musical studies in Copenhagen and earned a six-year diploma from the Prague Conservatory with a rare triple major in Composition, Conducting, and Piano Performance. He holds a Master of Music in Composition from Brooklyn College (with Douglas Geers, Jason Eckardt, and Tania León and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under Raiko Füting.

Orchestral music lies at the core of Dedic’s artistic practice. His works have been performed by the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, Plzeň Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, and the Brooklyn College Orchestra. His orchestral catalog includes large-scale works such as Symphony No. 1, Fantasy for Four-Handed Piano and Orchestra, Aries Overture, The Destructors, Legend: Year-long Odyssey for solo Organ (Musiikkitalo Organ) and Orchestra, Den Sista Pastoralsymfonin (The Last Pastoral Symphony), and Kráľ Času (Time King), characterized by bold harmonic language, textural contrast, and rhythmic complexity.

Central to Dedic’s recent work is Arrythmism, a personal aesthetic that explores temporal instability, asymmetrical phrasing, perceptual dissonance, and the introduction of time warping in music. Drawing from spectral techniques and post-serial fragmentation, Arrythmism manipulates rhythm as a fluid. It’s an expressive tool that often blends pulse disruptions, shifting metric fields, and controls elastic timing within musical fractal geometry.

Awards

3rd place in the Busan Choral Festival Competition (BCFC), Korea (2023)
1st place in the 54th annual Music Festival Antonin Dvorak Composer’s Competition in Pribram, Czechia. (2023)
Finalist in Joe Hisaishi’s 4th Young Composer's Competition, Tokyo (2022)
Honorary mention in the 52nd annual Music Festival Antonin Dvorak Composer’s Competition in Pribram, Czechia. (2021)
Brooklyn College Conservatory’s Morton Feldman Award for Excellence in Composition (2019)
1st place in a Slovenian Composers Competition to Perform With the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. (2016)
1st place, with Song cycle “For Friends” for Bass voice and piano at an International Song Competition, Denmark (2015)
1st place in the first category of the Talent of Prague 5 in 2014
Best performed composition from a modern composer in Antonin Dvorak's International Singing Competition Carlsbad (2012)

Concerts

Dresden Philharmonic Choir - Choirmaster: Iris Geißler (21st May 2024)
Contemporary Performance Program (CPP) II collaborations (On-line May 13, 2020)
Manhattan School of Music Chamber Ensemble - conducted by Derek Cooper (15th of November 2019)
Brooklyn College Orchestra - conducted by George Rothman (17th of May 2018)
Brooklyn Contemporary Ensemble (13th of December 2017)
Central German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra - conducted by Charles Olivieri-Munroe (17th of March 2017)
Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra - conducted by Charles Olivieri-Munroe (5th of July 2016)
The North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Teplice - conducted by Charles Olivieri-Munroe (22nd of October 2015)
Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra - Talent of Prague 5 – conducted by Leoš Svárovský (17th of March 2015)
Prague International Conservatory Orchestra - conducted by Jan Pellant (28th of May 2014)