Tom Williams is an award-winning composer. His music has received numerous international performances and broadcasts; including BBC Radio 3; SEAMUS (Miami,Iowa, Boston); Sonorities (Belfast); EMMF (Kansas & Chicago); Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; Expo (Manchester and Scarborough); ACMC (Wellington and Brisbane); Futura (France); Weimar; Sonus and TES (Canada); NYCEMF (New York in 2011/13/16/17/20/24); and at ICMC conferences (NYC, Barcelona, New Orleans, Ljubljana, Belfast); and he has written for dance, theatre and education. In the 1993 ALEA III competition Ironwork for piano and tape was a prizewinner; Break was a finalist of 2004 Musica Nova, and Shelter received an honourable mention at Bourge, IMEB, 2006. In 2010, Can won the medal of the Senato della Repubblica Italiana Music Contest “Città di Udine”.
2023 acousmatic composition Piano Trace has been performed at festivals that include Jauna Muzika 2023 in Vilnius, Noisefloor 2024 in Lisbon; Spatial Audio Gathering, DMU, Leicester; NYCEMF2024, New York. His 2022 instrumental composition, As Soon as Dawn Appears, for 9-players, and which was commissioned by Orchestra of the Swan, was performed in Stratford-upon-Avon, Play House, and Coventry, Drapers Hall (2022). Recently this year (2024) he completed a 3-movement work for violin and piano, In Spring. Special Prize awarded for Piano Trace by 4th Ise-Shima International Composition Competition (2024).
A Shadow that Falls for percussion and fixed media commissioned by Thierry Miroglio, has been widely performed in Europe and the US; a video performance by US percussionist Patti Cudd and studio recording by Thierry Miroglio.
In 2018 Sarah Watts commissioned a new work for contrabass clarinet and electronics – link to TV video Weighed Down by Light. The piece has had multiple performances by Sarah and has been released on Cuillin Sound Music.
Dart for cello and electronics, premiered in New York in 2013 at EarHeartMusic, and since performed at ICMC (Australia), NYCEMF (US) and IFAI (Leeds)and SEAMUS (USA) has been released on Albany Records (2015) played by New York cellist Madeleine Shapiro; Dart was a finalist for the British Composer Awards 2013 (AKA Ivor Novello Awards), Sonic Art Category.
In 2016 he completed the song cycle with live electronics for the acclaimed soprano, Juliana Janes Yaffé, Meditations on a Landscape (words from the poetry of PennyAnne Windsor). The cycle has been performed at, INTIME, and at THIS 2017 in Leeds, in New York NYCEMF 2017, New York in June, and at Sound+Environment 2017, University of Hull and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 New Music Show.
More recent creative projects include composing for the clarinettist extraordinaire, Sarah Watts, for contrabass clarinet and electronics, Weighed Down by Light; and acclaimed French percussionist Thierry Miroglio, A Shadow that Falls.
Tom Williams has a doctorate (DMA) in music composition from Boston University and a master’s in composition from Keele University. Currently he leads the MA Music Production at Coventry University. Previously at Coventry University he was Course Director, BA (Hons) Music Composition and Curriculum Lead in Music and Performance.
