JULIUS P. WILLIAMS Is an award- winning conductor, composer, recording artist, educator, author and pianist. His career has taken him from his native New York to musical venues around the globe, and has involved virtually every musical genre. Maestro Williams Carnegie Hall conducting debut was with the “Symphony Saint Paulia” Inaugural concerts in New York. 

He has conducted American Orchestras in Dallas, New Haven, Oakland, Hartford, New Jersey, Sacramento, Knoxville,Savannah, Oklahoma, and  will appear with the Buffalo Philharmonic  in the the coming 2023 Season Subscription series. He also will be guest conductor and teacher with the Monteux Music Festival this coming summer. He was Music Director of the Washington Symphony (1998-2003) which was the official Orchestra of Washington, DC. He was the Conductor of the Pulitzer Prize performance of Anthony Davis Opera Central Park Five/Five originally premiering and preparing the work. He recently conducted a tour with the Oberlin Conservatory Opera and the Cleveland Opera Theater receiving rave reviews for the performances of the Opera “Harriett Tubman”. He was also Guest Conductor with the Colour of Music Orchestra in 2021 and again in 2022  and most recently again with the Dallas Symphony at the Black Academy Third Annual Riverfest Festival in Dallas, Texas. In the past, he has served as Assistant Conductor to the late Maestro Lucas Foss with The Brooklyn Philharmonic and with The American Symphony in New York. 

Maestro Williams is currently Artistic Director and Conductor of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra in Boston and Music Director and Conductor of the Trilogy An Opera Company in New Jersey and he is also President of the International Conductors Guild. And Co Chair od the League of American Orchestra Conductors Constituency Committee Additionally, he served as Composer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra “Composer In Residence, Project” (2020) and recently his Heroes Who Healed a Nation was premiered by the Boston Pops Orchestra on National Television. He serves on occasion as a cover (understudy) conductor to the Boston Pops Orchestra (BSO) in Boston. In addition, he has also served as a cover conductor to the Rhode Island Philharmonic. In Europe, Maestro Williams has performed and recorded with The Prague Radio Symphony, among many others. 

A prolific composer, Maestro Williams has created works for virtually every genre of contemporary classical performance, including opera, ballet, orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus and solo voice, dance, musical theater and film. His music has been performed by countless symphony orchestras including New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, St Louis Symphony, and this season Boston Symphony will perform his “Songs for My Culture” for chamber orchestra. His ballet “Cinderella” and opera “Guinevere” were premiered respectively by the Nutmeg Ballet Company and the Aspen Music Festival and at Dubrovnik Music Festival in Croatia. His film and theatrical scores include “What Color is Love?” and “InDahomey”. His film score for Lifetime TV’s “Fighting for our Future” won the Gracie Allen Documentary Award in 2003. 

Julius Williams’ discography includes the critically acclaimed “Symphonic Brotherhood” a collection of African-American symphonic music, “Shades of Blue,” “The New American Romanticism,” “Somewhere Far Away,” “Places in Time,” “The American Soloist and Midnight Tolls,” all available on the Albany Records label. In 2016-17 he released two more orchestral recordings “Moments of Arrival” on Centaur Records and “The Bird That Wants to Fly” a children’s opera on Naxos/Roven Records. His recordings are on the Albany, Centaur, Naxos and Videmus Record labels. For a complete biography visit his website 

http://juliuspwilliams.com