Audrey Adams earned a magna cum laude Bachelor of Music degree from Syracuse University, with majors in piano and voice, and a Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York.

She began accompanying in childhood, later appearing as soloist and chamber music pianist. As a mezzo-contralto, she has performed in recital, oratorio and in leading operatic roles. Her long church music career has involved work with multiple choirs in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as well as organ service-playing and recitals.

For five years, she taught and conducted choruses at a large middle school in New York state, developing an interest in the boy's changing voice (cambiata). She later wrote and directed workshops on the subject. In 1976, Audrey moved to New Hampshire in order to join the music faculty at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. She remained there for ten years, teaching voice and music education, as well as founding and directing the UNH Women's Chorus. For the next fifteen years, Audrey acted on most of the Seacoast area stages, appearing in comedies, dramas and musicals.

Supposedly retired, she is now organist-choir director at the Kittery Point Congregational Church; during the summer, she occupies a similar position at Trinity Episcopal Church in York Harbor, which employs an auditioned choir.