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 NATHAN
WILLIAMS
Nathan Williams--hailed by critics
as "outstanding for his musicality, breath control, robust, and brilliant tone, and flawless technique" (El Nuevo Dia Domingo, San Juan),
"a highly effective soloist" (The New York Times), and "a stellar musician, capable of the most exquisite and expressive
playing" (The Winston-Salem Journal)–-has appeared as concerto soloist and given recitals and chamber music performances at
Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Kaufmann Hall at the 92nd St. Y, as well as throughout the United States, and in Austria,
Canada, China, Israel, Hungary, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.
He was a prize winner in Rotterdam’s International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition for performers of contemporary music,
the William C. Byrd Young Artists Competition, the Eastman Concerto Competition, and the Naumburg International Competition.
He has been a resident artist at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he
won the C. D. Jackson Award for outstanding achievement.
Mr. Williams has been heard in concert broadcasts on National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the
Austrian Radio Network, NCRV (Dutch Radio), and WNCN-New York. He has commissioned several solo and chamber works, from
such composers as Robert Maggio, Scott McAllister, Adam Silverman and Edward Jacobs, and he has taken part in world-premiere
recordings and performances of both solo and chamber music for the New York Guild of Composers, the Austrian Composers
Foundation, the Focus! Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center, and San Francisco’s Composers, Inc. He was the principal
clarinetist of the Winston-Salem Symphony from 1996 to 2003, and from 1990 to 2001 he was on the faculty of the East
Carolina University School of Music in Greenville, N. C.
Mr. Williams has received critical acclaim for his compact disc recordings for Albany, Composers Recordings, Inc., Naxos,
New Dynamic Records, and Arizona University Recordings. He is also a featured soloist on "Music from the I.C.A.,"
distributed by the International Clarinet Association. In 1999, Strata–-a trio he founded with violinist James Stern
and pianist Audrey Andrist--recorded works by Aram Khachaturian, Max Bruch, Martin Rokeach, Igor Stravinsky, and Don
Freund for AUR. A duo CD with Andrist, Spontaneous Lines (Albany Records, TROY 311), features works by American
composers Leslie Bassett, Sebastian Currier, Robert Maggio, Robert Muczynski, and Martin Rokeach.
Mr. Williams earned the Artist Diploma with highest honors from the Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Vienna,
Austria, as well as graduate degrees from the Eastman and Juilliard schools, where he studied with Stanley Hasty.
Since 2001 he has been the Instructor of Clarinet at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and during 2003-2004 was also
named Visiting Associate Professor at Michigan State University’s School of Music.
Forthcoming engagements during the 2005-2006 season include concerts in San Francisco, California, Washington, D. C.,
Boulder, Colorado, Montreal, Canada, Jerusalem, Israel, Charleston, South Carolina, Bar Harbor, Maine, and Interlochen,
Michigan. He is on the Artist Roster of Lois Scott Management, Inc. in New York.
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Performances with STRATA:
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Other Opportunities
to hear Nathan Williams:
February 3, 2007
Hang Chiao Bilingual School
Taipei, Taiwan
-Master Class for Taiwan Band Association
February 5, 2007
Hang Chiao Bilingual School
Taipei, Taiwan
-Solo Recital with Chin-lin Fan, piano
March 9, 2007
Wichita State University
-Master Class
March 10, 2007
Wichita State University
-Solo Recital
April 28, 2007
Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra
Interlochen, Michigan
-Soloist, Debussy/Premiere Rhapsodie and Piazzola/Oblivion
May 3, 2007
Interlochen Arts Academy Band
Interlochen, Michigan
-Soloist, Daugherty/Brooklyn Bridge
July 3-8, 2007
International Clarinet Association
ClarinetFest
Vancouver, B.C.
-Solo Recital
July 2-14, 2007
Amalfi Coast Music Festival & Institute
Amalfi, Itlay
-Clarinet & Chamber Music Workshop, private lessons, master classes,
faculty recitals
Additional Information for Amalfi Coast
Music Festival & Institute
Highlights of Past Performances:
NATHAN
WILLIAMS
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Solo performances in China, The Netherlands, the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan and Taiwan
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Recordings for Albany, CRI, Naxos, Arizona University Recordings
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Performances broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, CBC Radio, NCRV
(Dutch Radio), Austrian Radio
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International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest performances in 1995
(Arizona), 2004 (Maryland), and 2005 (Japan)
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Solo and chamber performances in Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall,
Kaufmann Hall at the 92nd Street Y
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Recitals and chamber concerts at Florida State University, Eastern
Michigan University, University of Maryland, Michigan State
University, University of New Mexico, University of Alabama, Bowling
Green State University, Interlochen Arts Academy, University of North
Carolina, East Carolina University
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Solo performances at Chinese International Clarinet and Saxophone
Festivals in Xi'an (2002), Changchun (2004), and Yantai (2005)
- Summer
festival performances at Tanglewood Music Center, Sarasota Music
Festival, Appalachian Summer Festival
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1996-2002, Principal Clarinet with the Winston-Salem
Symphony, Winston-Salem, NC
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