Edgar Warren Williams

Edgar Warren Williams (born June 12, 1949) is an American composer, conductor, and music theorist. Williams obtained a bachelor’s degree in composition from Duke University in 1971, then obtained a master’s degree at Columbia University in 1973, studying with Charles Wuorinen, Mario Davidovsky, and Harvey Sollberger. He then matriculated at Princeton, where he received a Master’s in Fine Arts in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1982 and studied with Milton Babbitt and James K. Randall. He was a faculty member and orchestral conductor at the College of William & Mary from 1979. Williams’s compositional work is noted for its orchestrational and timbral complexity, and its use of pitch collections as melodic and thematic elements. Compositions Orchestral * 1969 Of Orphalese * 1984 Landscapes with figure * 1998 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror * 1999 Suite on “Nosferatu” For concert band * 1968 “To my Father” Prologue * 1978 Across a Bridge of Dreams * 1991 Into the dark * 1993 Now showing! * 2002 Music from behind the Moon * Prologue Musicals * 1970 Music for In the Dark of the Moon * 1982 Music for The Merry Wives of Windsor – text by William Shakespeare * 1985 Music for Richard II – text by Willi