Julius P Williams
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Julius P Williams
BIO
Is an award-winning conductor, composer, recording artist, educator, author and pianist. named Musical America's Top 30 Professionals of the Year. His career has taken him from his native New York to musical venues around the globe, and has been involved virtually in every musical genre. Maestro Williams' Carnegie Hall conducting debut was with the "Symphony Saint Paulia" Inaugural concerts in New York. He has conducted American Orchestras in Dallas, Buffalo, New Jersey, Oakland, Hartford, New Haven, Akron, Vermont, Knoxville, Sacramento, Paducah, Norwalk, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Savannah, Harlem Symphony, Color of Music Festival Orchestra, and the New Works Orchestra.Julius' Gear
In the 2021 season he was selected as a guest conductor of the Color of Music Festival in South Carolina featuring the wonderful artist Venessa Williams. In 2022 he appeared with the Inner City Youth Orchestra at the League of American Orchestras National Conference and also with The Gala Messiah with the National Chorale and Orchestra at David Geffen Hall in New York this past season included performances as Guest Conductor of the Isabella Gardner Museum Boston Series and the Color of Music Festival Orchestra in Sacramento and Guest Conductor at the Monteux Festival in Maine and the 2023-2024 season subscription concerts with the Buffalo Philharmonic. Most recently he conducted a gala performance with the group "Sweet Honey and the Rock" at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. This season he will conduct the World premiere of the Opera Edmonia at Interlochen in Michigan. As well as appearing with Opera America as an adjudicator in New York and as commentator with the Boston Lyric Opera.
A prolific composer, Maestro Williams has created works for virtually every genre of contemporary classical performance, including opera, ballet, orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus and solo voice, dance, musical theatre and film. His music has been performed by countless symphony orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Richmond, Hartford and countless orchestras around the world.
Julius Williams' discography includes the critically acclaimed "Symphonic Brotherhood" a collection of African-American symphonic music, "Shades of Blue," "The New American Romanticism," Somewhere Far Away, Places in Time, The American Soloist and Midnight Tolls, all available on the Albany Records label."Moments of Arrival"on Centaur Records and "The Bird That Wants to Fly" a children opera on Naxos/Roven Records. in 2024 his newest recordings Alone/Together The Dreams & Diversity of the American Composer and A Legacy of African American Classical Sprit was released on the Albany Record Label and in 2024. His recordings are on the Albany, Centaur, Naxos and Videmus Record labels.
Williams has been a full-time professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston[6] since fall 1998.[citation needed] He is the Professor of Composition and Artistic Director of The Berklee Contemporary Symphony at Berklee College of Music.[9] He teaches composition, conducting, theory, and also runs the Berklee International Composers Institute.
Welcome on board, Julius!
Learn more about Julius https://juliuspwilliams.com/
A prolific composer, Maestro Williams has created works for virtually every genre of contemporary classical performance, including opera, ballet, orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus and solo voice, dance, musical theatre and film. His music has been performed by countless symphony orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Richmond, Hartford and countless orchestras around the world.
Julius Williams' discography includes the critically acclaimed "Symphonic Brotherhood" a collection of African-American symphonic music, "Shades of Blue," "The New American Romanticism," Somewhere Far Away, Places in Time, The American Soloist and Midnight Tolls, all available on the Albany Records label."Moments of Arrival"on Centaur Records and "The Bird That Wants to Fly" a children opera on Naxos/Roven Records. in 2024 his newest recordings Alone/Together The Dreams & Diversity of the American Composer and A Legacy of African American Classical Sprit was released on the Albany Record Label and in 2024. His recordings are on the Albany, Centaur, Naxos and Videmus Record labels.
Williams has been a full-time professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston[6] since fall 1998.[citation needed] He is the Professor of Composition and Artistic Director of The Berklee Contemporary Symphony at Berklee College of Music.[9] He teaches composition, conducting, theory, and also runs the Berklee International Composers Institute.
Welcome on board, Julius!
Learn more about Julius https://juliuspwilliams.com/