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Amy Williams has appeared as a composer and pianist in the United States and Europe, including the Logos
Foundation and Ars Musica (Belgium), Musikhøst Festival and Funen New Music Society
(Denmark), Subtropics New Music Festival (Miami), Festival of New American Music (Maine),
American Landmarks Festival and Greenwich House (New York City), SEAMUS, Society for New
Music (Syracuse), Festival of the Human Voice (Vermont), Sound Field Festival (Chicago),
North American New Music Festival and Hallwall's Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo).
Her works have been performed by The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, North/South
Consonance, Empyrean Ensemble, pianists Yvar Mikhashoff and Luk', and bassist Robert Black.
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Photo by Jim Newberry
Commissioned composer for:
4th International Women's
Brass Conference
Normal, Illinois
2003
JB Montage
was premiered by
the Monarch Brass Ensemble |
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Commissions include works for Klang (two pianos and two percussion), the Monarch
Brass Ensemble, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, Ensemble Noamnesia (six players at one piano)
and the CUBE Ensemble (alto flute and percussion) As a member of the Bugallo-Williams Piano
Duo, she has performed at the NUMUS Festival (Denmark), Jordan Hall (Boston), June in
Buffalo, Merkin Concert Hall, 3-2 Festival, Goethe-Institut/German Cultural Center (New
York), Teatro San Martin (Buenos Aires), Musik aus Solitude (Germany) and the OGNAT
Festival (Sweden) and recorded a CD of Conlon Nancarrow's complete music for solo piano and
piano duet, produced by the Südwestrundfunk (German Radio).
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Ms. Williams has also recorded for MODE and HAT-HUT Records. She
has won the Wayne Peterson Composition Prize, the Thayer Award for the Arts, an ASCAP Award for Young
Composers, and grants from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, American Music Center and
Meet the Composer. She holds a Ph.D. in composition from the State University of New York
at Buffalo, where she also received her Master's degree in piano performance.
Before her current position on the composition faculty of Northwestern University,
she taught at Bennington College and SUNY at Buffalo, where she served as Assistant
Director of the annual June In Buffalo festival for emerging composers. She is currently
the Director of New Music Northwestern and Associate Director of the Northwestern
Contemporary Music Ensemble.
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