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 appears on
Andrew Schultz: Suspended Preludes
Andrew Schultz, then Professor of Composition at Wollongong University, is a prolific composer with a large body of chamber music. This second Tall Poppies volume gathers nine works, performed by Australian musicians.
