Amy Williams (composer)

Amy Williams (born 1969) is an American composer and pianist.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] She was born in Buffalo, New York, into a musical family, with her mother being a violist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and her father being a percussionist and professor emeritus at the university at Buffalo.

One of Williams's most notable works is her ambitious Cineshape series of chamber pieces inspired by different films. This was presented in May 2016 with live performances by the JACK Quartet, flautist Lindsey Goodman and percussionist Scott Christian, with a new video component by Aaron Henderson.^[5]

^ Pittsburgh Post Gazette-5 Feb 2013
^ ITG Journal - Volume 28, Issues 1-3 - Page 25 International Trumpet Guild - 2003 "... written for other instruments, and commissioned works including the world premiere of Amy Williams' JB Montage. ... for two choirs and double brass choir here presented for the first time arranged by the composer for triple brass choir."
^ Signal to Noise - Issues 36-39 - Page 44 2005 - ". Chicago avant-jazz and experimental musicians, including electronic composer/spoken word performer Lou Mallozzi, composer-pianist (and Northwestern University professor) Amy Williams,"
^ New York Times 2015 Still Music to the Ears, but From Odd Sources Bargemusic’s Here and Now Series Offers Winter Festival "The formidable pianist Ursula Oppens then asked the poet Brian Philip Katz to read “Falling,” his poem that inspired the composer Amy Williams’s piano piece of the same title, which Ms. Oppens played beautifully. It is a short work run through with hauntingly repeated midrange pitches encircled by pungent chords and lacy filigree."
^ "Cineshape featuring Amy Williams and the JACK Quartet Comes to the Eastman School of Music on May 3 – Eastman School of Music". www.esm.rochester.edu. 15 April 2016. Retrieved 2018-09-02.

[1] Pittsburgh Post Gazette-5 Feb 2013

[2] ITG Journal - Volume 28, Issues 1-3 - Page 25 International Trumpet Guild - 2003 "... written for other instruments, and commissioned works including the world premiere of Amy Williams' JB Montage. ... for two choirs and double brass choir here presented for the first time arranged by the composer for triple brass choir."

[3] Signal to Noise - Issues 36-39 - Page 44 2005 - ". Chicago avant-jazz and experimental musicians, including electronic composer/spoken word performer Lou Mallozzi, composer-pianist (and Northwestern University professor) Amy Williams,"

[4] New York Times 2015 Still Music to the Ears, but From Odd Sources Bargemusic’s Here and Now Series Offers Winter Festival "The formidable pianist Ursula Oppens then asked the poet Brian Philip Katz to read “Falling,” his poem that inspired the composer Amy Williams’s piano piece of the same title, which Ms. Oppens played beautifully. It is a short work run through with hauntingly repeated midrange pitches encircled by pungent chords and lacy filigree."

[5] "Cineshape featuring Amy Williams and the JACK Quartet Comes to the Eastman School of Music on May 3 – Eastman School of Music". www.esm.rochester.edu. 15 April 2016. Retrieved 2018-09-02.

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