Michael Glenn Williams

Michael G. Williams, Pianist / Composer

Web Addresses:
http://www.michaelglennwilliams.com

Email Address:
composer@music.org

Latest Publication:

Latest CD Release (click to order):

Wet
Pocket Jazz Records
2000

Sound Sample

Latest Motion Picture work:

Wonderland

Projects upcoming:

New recording of solo piano works on AIX Media Group with artist Roberto Prosseda

Michael Glenn Williams

(Michael G. Williams)
Composer, Pianist

Michael Glenn Williams composes for a wide range of musical styles and purposes, from prize winning contemporary symphonic concert music, concert choir, chamber and solo piano works to avant-garde electronic music, Christian, Hebrew and popular songwriting, jazz, television and film. His new jazz group "1 40 4 20" has released two albums: "Jazz Trespassers" and "Wet", to critical acclaim. Michael G. Williams’ music and piano performance is featured on the recent films "Wonderland" and "The Limey" from Universal Pictures.

As a columnist, his articles have appeared in Electronic Music Educator, Klavier and Computer Music Journal. Michael G. Williams is well known in the computer industry as an expert in operating system design, system hardware design and computer chip functional design. He serves full time as the Chief Technical Architect for Nokia‘s Internet Communications division. He was the author of the music, MIDI sequencing, typesetting and printing program SuperScore, and consulted on the design of the original music font for general use "Sonata" with Adobe Systems. His name appears in two IEEE international computer standards.

Mr. Michael Williams has served as director of contemporary music at Ascension Lutheran Church in Thousand Oaks, and for the Rothstein conservative temple in Woodland Hills, CA. He has served as accompanist or organist for numerous churches, temples, colleges and master classes in Southern California. As an accomplished classical pianist, Michael Williams twice won the Northridge Chamber Music award, and has premiered works written for him by composers such as Jeffery Cotton and Jeff Rona. He was recently guest artist at the first national conference of NACUSA in Kansas City, 2003.

In the last decade, Michael Williams has composed five musicals for children and youth; music for the television series "Chicago Hope"; scored scenes for movies such as "The Limey", "King of the Hill", "Younger and Younger", "House of Yes" and "Wonderland"; a new trio for the Westlake Chamber Ensemble; over sixty songs for use in Christian worship; over forty songs for his instrumental jazz group; a symphony and concert march for symphonic band; an orchestral tone poem; and numerous contemporary pieces for solo piano. An album of his solo piano music was recorded by Roberto Prosseda for AIX Media Group.

Mr. Michael Williams taught music composition at UCLA extension. He studied composition and piano performance at California State University Northridge and at the Eastman School of Music, where he won the Howard Hanson Prize for orchestral composition. He lives in Ventura County, California.

Sergio Cafaro

Pianist, Composer

Latest Publication:

Vive Carmen!

For Piano Four Hands

Sergio Cafaro
Composer, Pianist

Sergio Cafaro, born in Rome, graduated in piano at the Conservatorio di S. Cecilia of the same city under the guidance of Rodolfo Caporali and in composition under the guidance of Goffredo Petrassi. Winner of many national and international piano competitions, among them the Competition in Genève, he began his concert career playing for the most important Italian societies. His repertoire includes many works from the piano literature from the 18th to the 20th century, with particular reference to Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Debussy. He has performed with many well-known violinists, including Milstein, Szering and Carminelli and under the direction of Stravinsky, Hindemith, Boulez and Petrassi.

He composed several symphonic, chamber and piano compositions that are performed in many countries of Europe, Asia, North and South America. He was the reviser for many of the Rossini piano works, a collaborator of radio programming for the third channel of RAI as well as Radio Vaticana and collaborator of several musical journals. He has recorded CDs for Edipan.

Cafaro is often called as a jury member for national and international piano competitions. He held masterclasses in many schools and academies; among them AMOR, Accademia Musicale Pescarese and the Campus Internazionale di Sermoneta. He began teaching in 1956 at the Conservatorio Rossini di Pescara, was professor of piano at the Conservatorio di S. Cecilia di Roma and now is an instructor at the Accademia AIDA.