Adam Hill’s
Dance Card
Adam Hill’s Dance Card is an improvisational concert experience featuring bassist and composer Adam Hill alongside two or three guests. The performance unfolds through a series of intimate duets, pairing Hill with each musician in turn before bringing everyone together for a final group collaboration.
Moving between jazz, folk, ambient, and experimental music, these spontaneous encounters create a constantly shifting musical landscape, full of unexpected connections, intricate interplay, and moments of discovery and beauty.
Available as a one- or two-set performance, Adam Hill’s Dance Card puts musical conversation, collaboration, and the excitement of improvisation front and centre.
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Short & Long Bios:
Short (64 words):
Adam Hill is a bassist and composer working across folk, jazz, classical, and improvised music. As a member of Atlantic String Machine and Taarka, he has performed across North America and collaborated with artists including Rose Cousins, Kaia Kater, Catherine MacLellan, and Cara Luft. His latest album, Dance Card, explores the possibilities of musical conversation through spontaneous duets with a diverse group of collaborators.
Long (218 words):
Adam Hill is a bassist, composer, and interdisciplinary musician whose work spans jazz, folk, contemporary classical, improvisation, and electroacoustic composition. Based on Prince Edward Island, Hill has built a career around musical curiosity, collaboration, and exploring the possibilities that emerge at the intersections of different musical traditions.
As a performer, Hill has been a member of the classical-hybrid ensemble Atlantic String Machine and the global-newgrass group Taarka, and has collaborated with artists including Rose Cousins, Catherine MacLellan, Kaia Kater, Jim Bryson, Lennie Gallant, Keeper E., Tim Chaisson, Tiffany Liu, Tzu-Cheng Wang, and Cara Luft. He has performed at festivals across North America, including South by Southwest, the Stan Rogers Folk Festival, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, the Rivercity Bluegrass Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, and the Sisters Jazz Festival.
As a composer, his work has been presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra. He has also received commissions from CBC Radio, the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble, and Luminos Ensemble.
Hill’s work is driven by an interest in the possibilities of musical interaction: the unexpected connections, intricate interplay, and shared discoveries that emerge when musicians listen, respond, and create together. His sixth album, Dance Card, brings this approach to the foreground, exploring spontaneous musical conversation through a series of improvised duets.
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Press & Reviews:
“An extraordinarily varied, exciting, yet simultaneously balanced whole.” — Holly Moors, Moorsmagazine (Aug 2026)
“The experimental and the traditional, the acoustic and the electronic, blend together with remarkable organic naturalness.” — Frank P. Eckert, Groove (Oct 2026)
“The surprises keep coming, while the fascination level remains high.” — A Closer Listen (Sept 2026)
“Styles that span R&B-adjacent to scrambled instrumental rock, ethereal pastoralism to ramshackle groove.” — Silent Radio UK (Sept 2026)
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Contact:
Email: misteradamhill (at) gmail (dot) com
Phone: 604-328-8466
Socials:
www.instagram.com/musicbyadamhill
