Michael Glenn Williams (born October 23, 1957 in Lancaster,

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) is an American

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and

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Biography

Williams' earliest years were spent in

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, beginning trumpet studies and composing at 8 years old. At age 12 he was programming DEC PDP 8 minicomputers. He attended CSU Northridge as a dual major in composition and piano performance where he studied with

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, Daniel Kessner, Frank Campo, and Francoise Regnat. He pioneered composing for FM synthesis combined with music concrete and acoustic instruments. He did graduate studies at the

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as a composition major, where he taught undergraduate electronic music, and worked with Samuel Adler, Robert Morris, Warren Benson, pianist

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, and briefly with

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and

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Performance career

Williams is performing as pianist in The Chopin Project, with the jazz group 1 40 4 20, and as a studio pianist for film and television. As composer-in-residence at the Lake Como Festival 2010, he performed as recitalist for the International Piano Academy's Piano Master series. He premiered works written for him by Jeffery Cotton,

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and other composers. He twice won the Northridge Chamber Music Award for performances of contemporary music. Williams also regularly releases performances on his Facebook page and YouTube channel
Michael's Piano Bar
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Works

Williams composes for solo piano, chamber ensembles, choir and solo voice. Works for orchestra include Video Games Concerto, New West Overture, Rising Stars Overture, Oceanic Overture, American Prairie Sketches,

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for piano and orchestra, composed for pianist Sean Chen; Princess Concerto for piano, narrator and orchestra; and

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a series of tone poems based on the

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sculptures. Williams catalogue for solo piano is extensive, with over twenty suites. Williams also composed for movies including

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, ''

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'', Wonderland and '' Wicker Park''. He also composed cues and performed piano for the TV series

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Notable recordings

* For The Young Artist: Sean Chen Plays the Works of Michael Glenn William
Navona Records
Sean Chen Pianist * Fine Music
Navona Records
Sean Chen Pianist * Digital Animatio
Stradivarius Records

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and Gabriele Baldocci pianists * Lyricism: Songs Without Words
AIX Records

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, pianist * Chroma, Capstone
Jeri-Mae Astolfi
pianist * Wet

Michael Williams with 1 40 4 20, artists * Jazz Trespassers, Pocket Jazz Records, 1 40 4 20 artists

Technologist

As a technologist, Williams has served as the Vice Chair of the

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802.21 working group, secretary for the IEEE 1275

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working group, and member of the IEEE 1754 Open Microprocessor working group. He authored the program SuperScore, one of the first computer editing and printing programs for music. He authored articles for the

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, Music Technology, Electronic Music Educator, and Klavier. He was awarded the title of Leading Scientist while working at

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. He holds patents in a variety of areas including network security, clustering, authentication and secure search.

External links and references

Michael Williams website
* SuperScore Announcement at CES https://web.archive.org/web/20060208022502/http://landley.net/history/mirror/8bits/ti99/time1987.htm * Directions in Media Independent Handover, IEICE Transactions https://web.archive.org/web/20090224182248/http://ietfec.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/E88-A/7/1772 * The Chopin Project https://www.youtube.com/user/gwizvideo * Announcement of IEEE 1754 Open Microprocessor Standard http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/1994/03/19/0000.html * IEEE Std 1275-1994: IEEE Standard for Boot Firmware (Initialization Configuration) Firmware: Core Requirements and Practices (ISBN Number: 1-55937-426-8)
Interactive Broadcast Television
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Patent for Prioritized Network Access for emergencies
Cited by

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