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, recipient of the 2023 Theater Washington Helen Hayes Award/Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical Adaptation. The show ran at Theater Alliance in Washington, DC in 2022 and 2024; it premieres on the west coast at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, January-March 2026. She and Caldwell are in 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, which premieres 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.