Works Catalogue

Adam’s music spans sacred choral works and emotionally vivid chamber music - written for the voice, piano, and ensemble in both liturgical and concert settings.

Liturgical/Concert Choral Works

(SATB unless otherwise noted)

*Original text by the composer

^Available for premiere

• Choral Music

  • Ave Maria (2025)

    For SATB high school choir (a cappella)

    Duration: ~1:45

    • Status: In preparation - currently under review, potential premiere with Catholic high school choir

  • He Opened Not His Mouth (2025) ^*

    Passiontide SATB motet (large chorus and piano/organ edition and hymn edition)

    Duration:

    • Concert version: ~7:00

      • Status: Premiere planned, details forthcoming

    • Hymn version: 5:00

      • Status: Premiere planned, details forthcoming

  • Magnificat (2025) ^

    SATB - large chorus, and piano

    Duration: ~6:30

    • Status: In preparation

  • Queen of High Heaven (2025)

    SATB large chorus

    Duration: ~2:45

    • Status: In preparation

  • Anima Christi (2024)

    SATB chorus ^

    Duration: ~ 4:12

    • Status: Available for premiere

  • Nunc Dimittis (2023)

    SATB chorus and piano

    Duration: ~ 4:00

    • Status: Recorded

  • Set Me as a Seal (2023)

    SSATB small ensemble arrangement

    Duration: ~ 3:30

    • Status: Recorded (self-produced)

  • The Lord Bless You and Keep You (2023)

    SATB chorus

    Duration: ~ 1:20

    • Status: Performed in liturgy

  • O Vos Omnes (2023)

    SATB chorus

    Duration: ~ 2:30

    • Status: Performed in liturgy

  • Be it Unto Me (2023)

    SATB large chorus (available in concert edition ^, abridged, and further abridged single-page edition ^)

    Duration:

    • Concert version: ~7:00

      • Status: Available for premiere

    • Abridged version: 5:00

      • Status: Performed in liturgy

    • Single-page version: ~1:30

      • Status: Available for premiere

  • Salutations to the Sacred Heart (2022)

    SATB chorus

    Duration: ~ 3:45

    • Status: Performed in liturgy

• Hymns

• Transform Our Hearts - Original hymn text and tune with descant*

• Justice and Mercy - Original hymn text and tune

• Psalm Settings (Logo(s)-Centric Psalms)

• Psalm 104 (Lord, Send Out Your Spirit) – Setting for Easter Vigil and Pentecost for cantor and piano

• Psalm 42 (Like a Deer) – Setting for Easter Vigil for cantor and piano

• Psalm 114 (I Will Walk in the Presence of God) – Setting for cantor and piano

• Psalm 138 (In the Sight of the Angels) – Setting for cantor and piano

• Psalm 54 (The Lord Upholds My Life) – Setting for cantor and piano

• Psalm 30 (I Will Praise You Lord) – Setting for cantor and piano

• Psalm 18 (I Love You Lord, My Strength) – Setting for two cantors and piano

• Psalm 90 (Fill Us With Your Love, Oh Lord) – Setting for cantor and piano

• Psalm 139 (I Give You Thanks) – Setting for cantor and piano

• Solo Vocal Works

• Sacred

• You Are There (text based on Psalm 139) - solo soprano and Piano

• The Christmas Rose (text: Cecil Day-Lewis) - solo soprano and Piano

• Christmas Carol (text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) - solo soprano and Piano

• Art Song

• Rhapsody de Profundis

• Alone (text: Edgar Allan Poe)

• For John Clare (text: John Ashbery)

• Invocation to Man Who Became the Body of History (text: Karol Wojtyla)

• Instrumental Works

• Tarantella (solo piano)

• Dialogues (Shakuhachi and piano)

• Nocturne for Cello and Piano

• “Espressivo” indeterminate work for large ensemble ^

• Piano Trio in D minor

• I. Allegro

• II. Adagio Funebre

• III. Andante - Allegro - Largo

• 4 O’Clock Piano Suite

• I. Chorale

• II. Waiting

• III. Surgery

• Arrangements & Editions

  (For church and concert use)

• Eia Mater Fons Amoris (Paul Mealor)

  • Reduction for soprano and piano by Adam Vincent Clay (approved by the composer)

• Traditional Be Thou My Vision (with melody from Here I Am, Lord)

  • Arrangement for solo piano by Adam Vincent Clay

• An Die Musik (Schubert)

  • Version A: Soprano, Flute, and Piano

  • Version B: Two Sopranos, Baritone, Flute, and Piano