A native of Michigan, Adam Wills Begley is Director of Music at the Birmingham Oratory and Artistic Director of Schola de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph, Montréal. Active as a conductor, organist, and consort singer, Adam served as Director of Choirs at Our Lady & the English Martyrs, Cambridge, Graduate Organ Scholar at Downing College, Cambridge, and Choral Scholar at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Prior to his appointment at the Oratory, Adam was Director of the Newman Chapel Choir of McGill University and Guest Conductor of the Choir of St. Andrew & St. Paul, singing regularly with Montréal ensembles like Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Rugissants, and Christ Church Cathedral Choir. In 2019, whilst a doctoral student at McGill University (Montréal), he became the first student from a Canadian university to be named a finalist in the American Choral Directors Association’s prestigious biennial Graduate Conducting Competition.

Adam began his training at Yale University, where he served as Music Director of the vocal jazz group Redhot & Blue. As Assistant Director of the Yale Whiffenpoofs, America’s oldest collegiate a cappella group, Adam led performances in over twenty-six countries and on five continents. Active as an educator with musicians of all levels, Adam has served on the conducting faculties of the Detroit Children's Choir and the Elm City Girls' Choir. Adam's conducting teachers include Stephen Layton, Christopher Robinson, Jerry Blackstone, Tim Brown, and Jean-Sébastien Vallée.