Julius Penson Williams

Julius Penson Williams (born 1954 in New York City ) is an American conductor, composer and music teacher.

Biography

Williams studied at the Herman H. Lehman College of the City University of New York and at the Hartt School of Music. He taught at various colleges and universities before he became professor of composition and conducting at Berklee College of Music in Boston. As a conductor, he assisted Lukas Foss at the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra and conducted numerous well-known American and European symphony and chamber orchestras.

He served as artistic director at the Costa del Sol Festival in Spain and the New York State Summer School of the Arts. In 1989, he conducted the opening concert of the Symphony Saint Paulia at Carnegie Hall, 1999, he opened the Tri -C Jazz Festival of Cleveland with a performance of Duke Ellington's Sacred Service.

Works

  • Cinderella, ballet
  • Easter celebration, cantata for orchestra, choir, gospel choir, tenor and dancer, 1993
  • Guinevere, opera, U.S. 1989
  • In roads for flute, oboe and cello, 1987
  • Norman overture
  • Sounds of colors for Organ
  • Toccatina for String Orchestra

Discography

  • Symphonic Brotherhood, 1993
  • Shades of Blue, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra under Julius P. Williams plays works by David Baker, H. Leslie Adams and Stephen Michael Newby, 2001
  • The American Soloist, the Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams performs works by Andrew List, Lee McQuillan, Joaquin Rodrigo and Arthur Welwood, 2004
  • The New American Romanticism, the Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams plays works by Leroy Southers, Lee McQuillan, Beth Denisch and Jack Jarrett, 2004
  • Midnight Tolls, the Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams plays works by Williams, Lee T. McQuillan, Armand Qualliotine and Thomas Hojnacki, 2006
  • Somewhere Far Away, the Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams plays works by Williams and Joe Westmoreland, 2008

Weblink

  • Homepage of Julius P. Williams

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