Description
William is an established composer and conductor. He writes and produces music for film, television, concert performance and commercial installation. Many of the 90-plus films he has composed for the major broadcasters have won international awards. In 2017 William won Best Score at the Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival for his score to Living Spirit Pictures Seeing Him. He has also had, in the last three years, three nominations for Best Composer at the RTS West of England Awards and, in 2016, was nominated for the Music Award at the Wildscreen Festival for Jago - A Life Underwater.
Recent scores include Hippos - Africa's River Giants (Icon Films Ltd for BBC Natural World, narrated by Sir David Attenborough), which had a nomination for Music at the RTS West of England Awards 2020; H2O - the Molecule that Made Us (3 x 60 mins series, Passion Pictures for PBS) which had its first TX on 22nd April 2020 and has won Best Series at Jackson Hole and Wildscreen Festivals: and, Tibet - Roof of the World (1 x 80 mins theatrical release 3 x int'l versions, Infocus Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore).
On stage and in the recording studio, William has collaborated with a wide variety of international soloists including guitarist John Williams, singer Tom Jones, saxophonist Andy Sheppard and jazz quartet Get The Blessing, with whom he performed at the Ovar Jazz Festival in 2019. Williams passion for working across styles led to a live and recorded collaboration with Mercury Prize-Winner, Roni Size & Reprazent, and their album, Live at Colston Hall, was released in November 2015. Also at the Colston Hall, with Sir David Attenborough presenting, William orchestrated and conducted the BBCs Natures Great Events Live to a sell-out audience. The BBCs Wild China series, orchestrated and conducted by William, won an Emmy for sound and music.