Williams, David

David Williams was born in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania in 1953. He holds degrees in music education, music history, and composition from West Virginia University.

He has composed and published music in a wide variety of genres including a horn quartet, a cello sonata, a concerto for trumpet and orchestra, music for organ, children's music for piano, and choral works. He has twice won the State of West Virginia's Arts Fellowship for musical composition (1992, 1999). His Cello Sonata was given its premier performance by cellist Carol Vizzini and pianist Eulea Kim on April 9, 2000 at the Lawrenceville School (New Jersey). The Seneca Chamber Orchestra played his Psalm for String Orchestra on May 7. He has composed a number of works for wind band including a symphony, a divertimento, A splendor falls… (Four Movements after Michelangelo), and the recent Dark Dreams of a Circus Bandstand. His Four Grotesques for Timpani has become a repertoire staple (if that can be said for literature for solo timpani).

His music is published by Studio 4 Music, Dorn Publications, Nichols Music, MorningStar Music, the Church Music Workshop, and rogelton (a belgian wind band publisher).

He is currently at work on two pieces: Lost Tales/Imaginary Dances, an orchestral work commissioned by the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra for the opening of its new concert hall and The Romance of Quantum Physics for 10 percussionists.

Dave lives in St. Albans, West Virginia with his wife Joyce and children, Joshua and Katie. He teaches composition at the University of Charleston.