Professor Alan Williams
School of Arts and Media
Current positions
Professor of Collaborative Composition
BIOGRAPHY
Alan Williams is a composer and writer on contemporary music and culture. He studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester and at the Liszt Academy, Budapest. His music has been performed by world leading ensembles such as the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Singers, the Philharmonia, and Psappha, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, MDR (Germany), NEC (Brazil) and Bartók Rádió (Hungary). As Professor of Collaborative Composition he is leading research partnerships with theBBC Philharmonic and with contemporary music group Psappha. He is the composer of the “world’s first Northern Opera”, the Arsonists, to a libretto by Ian McMillan.
Areas of research
Music, Composition, Audiences, Technology, Performance
- Composition
- Contemporary Music
- 20th Century Music History
- Composition
- Artistic Collaborations
- Contemporary Music and Musicology
Memberships
- Member of Editorial Board
- Contemporary Music Review