Graham Williams was artistic director of Music Past & Present from 1 995 to 2015. He also taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 2004 to 2010.
Graham Williams studied viola at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and studied composition privately with Richard Rodney Bennett. He is a prolific composer, and his works have received much critical acclaim both here and abroad as well as winning a number of prestigious awards including the William Mathias Composition Prize in 2007 for his work Within the Garden of Memory. He has also composed a wide variety of chamber music for groups such as Lontano, the Leopold String Trio, the Brindisi and Bingham String Quartets and the Feinstein Ensemble as well as several solo and chamber works for Victoria Samek.
His works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Autumn Miniatures for solo B flat clarinet
- Five Miniatures for solo Bb clarinet (Autumn 2026)
- Six Miniatures for Bb/bass clarinet & cello (Autumn 2026)
- The Song Within for Bb clarinet, cello & piano (Autumn 2026)
RECORDINGS:
- Orfeo Calms the Furies
- Partnerships (release date December 2026)