DrNatalie Williams

Natalie Williams is an award-winning Australian composer of new music for the classical stage. An international career has seen her works commissioned and performed across the globe by ensembles including the Atlanta Opera, the Omaha Symphony, the Berkeley Symphony, the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, West Australian and Canberra Symphony Orchestras, Musica Viva, the Australia Ensemble, Adelaide Baroque, the Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne Youth Orchestras, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Goldner String Quartet, British cello soloist Natalie Clein, the Doric String Quartet (UK), the Pavel Haas Quartet (Czech Republic), and The Muses Trio.

Her music has been championed by performers and toured throughout Europe, Australia and the United States. Composition prizes include; the 2018 Albert H. Maggs Award from the University of Melbourne, and the Judith Lang-Zaimont Prizefrom the International Alliance of Women in Music (2016). She was a two-time winner of the Atlanta Opera Composition Competition (2013 and 2015), winner of the Iron Composer competition (USA, 2010) and joint winner of the inaugural Schueler Awards for a new commission for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (2007). Professional development grants include funding from the Australasian Performing Rights Association, the British Music Society and the University of Sydney. As a teaching composer, faculty positions include the Australian National University, School of Music, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia,and teaching assistantships at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and the Faculty of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium.

Natalie holds a doctoral degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (2012) and a Graduate Certificate in Management from the Australian National University (2018). Roles in artistic administration include the Australian National Academy of Music, the Orchestra Victoria management team, and positions in university academic administration in Chicago and New York city, as Dean and Division Chair.