Amy Williams

Amy Williams is a composer of music that is "simultaneously demanding, rewarding and fascinating" (Buffalo News), "fresh, daring and incisive" (Fanfare), and "curious and playful" (The New York Times). Her work has been featured at major contemporary music festivals and venues including the Lucerne Festival, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Time:Spans, and the Gaudeamus Festival, and has been performed by leading contemporary music soloists and ensembles such as Ursula Oppens, Tony Arnold, Robert Black, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Wet Ink, Talujon, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and H2 Saxophone Quartet. Her music appears on the Albany, Parma, VDM (Italy), Blue Griffin, Centaur, and New Ariel labels. Williams’s honors include a Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fromm Music Foundation Commission, Koussevitsky Music Foundation Commission, Fulbright Scholars Fellowship, 2022 MacDowell Fellowship, 2024 Arts and Letters Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2024 Henri Lazarof International Commission Prize from Brandeis University. She holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University at Buffalo, is Professor of Composition at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves as Artistic Director of the New Music on the Point Festival in Vermont.