Bruce Williamson, Music
Williamson has participated as a jazz composer and a performer in clubs and festivals worldwide with such artists as Art Lande, Mark Isham, Jack McDuff, Fred Hersch, Gary Peacock, Paul McCandless, Bobby McFerron, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Bennie Green, Dave Douglas, Tom Harell, and Jim Pepper. He has also performed in New York City with American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, NY City Opera Orchestra, Manhattan New Music Project, Partita Ensemble, the Broadway production of Chicago, and Bond St. Theatre's Shinbone Alley Stilt Marching Band. He has collaborated on theater projects with composer Ricky Ian Gordon and director Tina Landau (The Family Project), director George Wolfe (Caroline, or Change); with director Julie Taymor (Juan Darien, The Lion King, and The Green Bird), and with director Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater. His work has been featured in Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal's filmscores for Frida, Titus, In Dreams, The Butcher Boy, and Across the Universe. As a recording artist for Timeless Records, he has been featured on dozens of recordings, playing saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo, piano, and synthesizer. He has received two NEA grants for Jazz Composition and has taught at SUNY Purchase, Hunter College, and Williams College. BM, University of Miami; MA, Hunter College. He has taught at Bennington since 1994.
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