Heidi Louise Williams, Piano
Performances by Heidi Louise Williams
| Composer | Title | Date | Action |
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| Richard Strauss | Sonata for Violin in E-flat Major, Op. 18 | 04/18/2015 |
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| Ernest Bloch | Nigun, from Baal Shem | 04/18/2015 |
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| Ernest Bloch | Vidui, from Baal Shem | 04/18/2015 |
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| César Franck | Prélude, Choral et Fugue | 01/20/2009 |
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| Frédéric Chopin | Scherzo No. 3 in c-sharp minor, Op. 39 | 01/10/2009 |
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| William Bolcom | Hymne à l’Amour from 12 New Etudes for Piano | 01/09/2009 |
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| Johann Sebastian Bach | Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 from Cantata BWV 140 | 01/26/2009 |
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Heidi Louise Williams, Piano
Biography
American pianist Heidi Louise Williams has appeared in solo and chamber music performances across the United States and in Europe. Her 2004 New York debut recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall received the highest acclaim.
She has won numerous prizes including the St. Louis Artist Presentation Society Debut Recital Auditions, the La Gesse Foundation Piano Fellowship, the W. Frederick Schaad Award at the Carmel National Chamber Music Competition, the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards Competition, two Peabody Career Development Grants, and the Peabody Sidney M. Friedberg Prize in Chamber Music.
Her engagements have included concerto appearances with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, the Southern Illinois Symphony and the Oregon Sinfonietta, as well as professional solo and chamber music appearances in such venues as Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the French Embassy in Washington D.C., the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, the Carmel Sunset Theater in California, and Clapp Recital Hall at the University of Iowa.
An active chamber musician, Ms. Williams has collaborated in numerous performances with many outstanding American and international artists including violinist Bin Huang, the Maia and Cavani Quartets, violist Miles Hoffman, violinist Qian Zhou, violinist Geza Kapas, cellists Pei Lu and Dariusz Skoraczewski, pianist Sandra Wright Shen, and her faculty colleagues. Her recent engagements include a recital at Weill Hall, and Carnegie Hall as recipient of an Artists International Alumni Award in Piano.
Ms. Williams joined the piano faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music in 1999. Prior to this appointment, she taught piano at Wheaton College, Illinois as a semester sabbatical replacement for her former teacher Dr. William Phemister. She completed her Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied piano with Ann Schein and coached chamber music with Earl Carlyss, Samuel Sanders, Stephen Kates, and Robert McDonald. For three summers she studied at the Aspen Music Festival, serving as scholarship accompanist.
In 2002, Ms. Williams released her first solo promotional CD recording, featuring piano works by J.S. Bach, Chopin, Debussy and Barber. More recently, she released a second recording in collaboration with SIUC Violin Professor Michael Barta, featuring works by Dvorak, Beethoven, Kodaly-Szigeti and Franck. Both CD recordings are available through the SIUC School of Music.