Stephen Williams




Stephen is a freelance clarinettist based in London. He has performed throughout the UK and abroad with a variety of ensembles including the Britten Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of London Chamber Orchestra, Haffner Wind Ensemble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble MidtVest in Denmark. He has also performed at various international music festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival, Cheltenham Festival and Chipping Campden Festival, and in his final year of studies gave solo performances at both Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York and the Barbican Hall in London.

Also a dedicated teacher, Stephen teaches clarinet at The Purcell School, one of the UK’s leading specialist schools for young musicians.

A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Stephen studied clarinet with Andrew Marriner, Joy Farrall, Nicholas Carpenter and Andrew Webster, and composition with James Weeks and Dr Paul Newland. His compositions have been performed and workshopped by a variety of groups and ensembles including The Hermes Experiment and the acclaimed vocal ensemble EXAUDI. During his studies he was generously supported by Help Musicians UK, Denne Gilkes Memorial Fund and GSMD Scholarship Award.


Composers

Fergus Hall
Shruthi Rajasekar
Abel Selaocoe
Nwando Ebizie
Elaine Mitchener
Shiva Feshareki
Sylvia Lim
Laura Moody
Philip Venables
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Raymond Yiu
Eleanor Alberga
Jacob Fitzgerald
Anna Disley-Simpson
Ruari Paterson-Achenbach
Tom Coult
Matthew Grouse
Errollyn Wallen
Oliver Leith
Benjamin Graves
Robin Haigh
Kevin Leomo
Joseph Davies
Элина Вагина
Svetlana Lavrova
Elena Igotti
Mira Calix
Alex Mills
Darren Bloom
Dominic Wills
Alexia Sloane
Anna Appleby
Jia Chai
Andrew Thomas
Emily Hall
Joel Rust
Timothy Salter
Eloise Gynn
Deborah Pritchard
Andy Ingamells
William Marsey
Elis Czerniak
Soosan Lolavar
Kate Whitley
Stevie Wishart
Ewan Campbell
Jethro Cooke
Edwin Hillier
James Joslin
Timothy Cape
Edward Henderson
Stephen Williams
Gareth Wood
Sasha Millwood
Graham Ross
Jeremy Thurlow
James Brady
Kate Honey
Aleksandr Brusentsev
Kim Ashton
Misha Mullov-Abbado
Freya Waley-Cohen
Josephine Stephenson
Ed Scolding
Giles Swayne
Lloyd Coleman
Jonathan Woolgar
William Cole