Floyd Williams
Floyd Williams is Senior Lecturer in Clarinet at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Brisbane. He has performed worldwide as principal and solo clarinettist and is a leading teacher of the instrument.
He has served as clarinet tutor at the National Music Camp (Australia) and the World Youth Orchestra (Malaysia), and his former students occupy principal positions in several major Australian symphony orchestras. His principal teachers were Harold Wright, Robert McGinnis and Richard Waller. Before coming to Australia he was Associate Professor of Clarinet at the University of New Mexico.
He has performed as principal clarinettist with US orchestras including the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Santa Fe, and as soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Santa Fe, the Queensland Philharmonic and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Festival appearances include the Darmstadt International Music Festival, several International Clarinet Congresses in the US, the 1991 Australasian Clarinet Conference and the 1993 National Clarinet and Saxophone Seminar in Melbourne.
In 1995 he presented a recital of Australian composers’ works at the International ClarFest in Tempe, Arizona; in 1996 he was invited to the Paris ClarFest.
Williams has recorded for Custom Fidelity, Crystal Records, ABC Classics, Jade Records and Vox Australis, and for this catalogue on programmes of Australian chamber music and related repertoire.
Floyd Williams is featured on the following titles
Peter Sculthorpe
A retrospective compilation of favourite chamber works by the late Peter Sculthorpe, drawn from Move’s own catalogue. Torres Strait song, Kakadu landscapes and intimate string writing are heard in performances by leading Australian musicians.
Dreamtracks
Music for clarinet by Australian composers. Celebrating Australia’s landscape, spirit and composers, Dreamtracks gathers some of the finest contemporary Australian writing for solo clarinet, clarinet and piano, and unusual chamber combinations.
Floyd Williams is featured on the following titles
Old Wine, New Bottles
Floyd Williams and JANUS illustrate the cross-fertilisation of folk, popular and jazz idioms within classical music. The premise was to play early music of the 14th–16th centuries on modern instruments, free of purist historical constraints.
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