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Jan Williams
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Person · Male · composer · conductor · drummer

Jan Williams

Born 1 Jan 1939United States9 albums

American percussionist, teacher, conductor, and composer

Biography

Jan Williams (born Jan Gardner Williams, July 17, 1939) is a percussionist, arts administrator, teacher, conductor, and composer who has championed avant-garde and progressive music in the United States. He is recognized as an important proponent of percussion performance and its literature.

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People

Member of

June in Buffalo Festival Orchestratimpani

Children

Amy Williams

Married to

Diane Williams

Students

Christopher Swist

Songs written

  1. In Betweendedication2001 · 1 releases

Songs recorded

  1. For Philip Guston16 versions
  2. Why Patterns?2 versions
  3. 1980 (version 1)
  4. 1980 (version 2)
  5. 1991 (version 1)
  6. 1991 (version 2)
  7. 4 Systems
  8. After the Blues
  9. Au revoir
  10. Bagatelle
  11. Birdbath
  12. Bomba
  13. Canticle no. 1
  14. Carnival
  15. Composed Improvisation
  16. Composed Improvisations for Steinberger Bass Guitar and Snare Drum
  17. Computer Music for Percussion and Tape: I. Decisively
  18. Computer Music for Percussion and Tape: II. Briskly
  19. Computer Music for Percussion and Tape: III. Lyrically
  20. Crippled Symmetry
  21. Crippled Symmetry (continued)
  22. Curriculum Vitae
  23. Edges (version 1)
  24. Edges (version 2)
  25. Europera 5
  26. Follow Me Softly
  27. For Ann (version 1)
  28. For Ann (version 2)
  29. For Frank O’Hara
  30. Hodograph 1 (version 1)
  31. Hodograph 1 (version 2)
  32. Hot Sauce
  33. Imaginary Landscape no. 1
  34. Imaginary Landscape no. 2 (March no. 1)
  35. Imaginary Landscape no. 3
  36. Imaginary Landscape no. 4 (March no. 2)
  37. Instruments II
  38. Labrynth no. 3: Image in the Soil
  39. Labrynth no. 3: Ode
  40. Labrynth no. 3: Passage Thru Dreams
  41. Labrynth no. 3: Seed
  42. Many Times Jan
  43. Pairs (version 1)
  44. Pairs (version 2)
  45. Pas de deux
  46. Persiflage for Flute, Oboe & Percussion
  47. Pika‐Don: Part I. Alamogordo
  48. Pika‐Don: Part II. Hiroshima
  49. Rendezvous
  50. Rune
  51. Ryoanji
  52. Song Without Words
  53. Stay on It
  54. Suite: Moderato
  55. Suite: Moderato allegro
  56. Suite: Slow
  57. The King of Denmark
  58. The Viola In My Life IV
  59. Three Pieces for Drum Quartet: Crystal Canon for Edgar Varèse
  60. Three Pieces for Drum Quartet: Hocket for Henry Cowell
  61. Three Pieces for Drum Quartet: Wake for Charles Ives
  62. Trajet
  63. Variations II
  64. Variations III (version 1)
  65. Yum Yum

Albums

Europera 5
Europera 5John Cage; Yvar Mikhashoff, Martha Herr, Gary Burgess, Jan Williams, Don Metz · 1994
The New York School 2
The New York School 2Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff; Eberhard Blum, Steffen Schleiermacher, Jan Williams · 1994
Exercises
ExercisesChristian Wolff; Eberhard Blum, Roland Dahinden, Steffen Schleiermacher, Jan Williams · 1995
New York School 3
New York School 3Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff; Eberhard Blum, Art Lange, Jan Williams · 1995
Imaginary Landscapes
Imaginary LandscapesJohn Cage; Maelström Percussion Ensemble, Jan Williams · 1996
Ryoanji
RyoanjiJohn Cage; Robert Black, Eberhard Blum, Iven Hausmann, Gudrun Reschke, John Patrick Thomas, Jan Williams · 1996
Labrynth
LabrynthLou Harrison; Maelström Percussion Ensemble, Jan Williams · 2000
Felder: In Between / Coleccion nocturna / Feldman: Instruments II / The Viola in My Life IV
Felder: In Between / Coleccion nocturna / Feldman: Instruments II / The Viola in My Life IVDavid Felder, Morton Feldman; June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, Harvey Sollberger, Jan Williams · 2001
Pika‐Don
Pika‐DonJames Tenney; Maelström Percussion Ensemble, Jan Williams · 2004

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