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Jan Williams (born Jan Gardner Williams, July 17, 1939 in Utica, New York) is a percussionist, arts administrator, teacher, conductor, and composer who has championed avant-garde and progressive music in the United States. He is recognized as an important proponent of percussion performance and its literature.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nils Vigeland Writes About Jan Williams > Blog > General > Burchfield Penney Art Center )〕 == Biography == Williams' first studied drums in elementary school in Utica, NY under George Claesgens. After experience playing snare drum in marching and concert bands, he began to study timpani while in high school. At Clarkson University (Potsdam, New York), then called Clarkson College, he elected an Electrical Engineering major because his teachers discouraged music as a career. Within a year, he was out of school, and the following fall he entered the Eastman School of Music to study with William Street, who advised Williams to study the keyboard percussion instruments seriously. Sometime during that year at Eastman, Williams read a magazine article that praised the work of Paul Price, a percussion teacher at the Manhattan School of Music who was performing new music for percussion ensemble. In the Fall of 1959, Williams moved to New York City to study with Price at the Manhattan School of Music. He spent five years at the Manhattan School, earning a bachelor's degree (1963) and master's degree (1964) in music performance.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jan Williams )〕 From 1962 to 1964, he was a member of the American Symphony Orchestra under conductor Leopold Stokowski. In 1964, Williams was selected as one of the first Creative Associates at the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at the University at Buffalo, which was founded by Lukas Foss. He remained at UB, where he created the Percussion Ensemble, with fellow Creative Associate percussionist, John Bergamo, continued an active performance career specializing in contemporary music and served as chair of the Music Department from 1981 to 1984. He retired in 1996 as Professor Emeritus. Williams also served as Artistic Director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts from 1974 to 1979 and as its resident conductor from 1976 to 1980. He co-directed, with Yvar Mikhashoff, the North American New Music Festival from 1983 to 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Performance Celebrates Legendary Percussionist Jan Williams - Music - SUNY Buffalo State )〕 Williams was a solo percussionist with orchestras in Paris, Berlin, Israel, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and Copenhagen and appeared internationally as percussionist, conductor, and instructor. Noted composers John Cage, Elliott Carter, Joel Chadabe, Luis De Pablo, Gustavo Matamoros, Frederic Rzewski, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, Orlando Garcia, Nils Vigeland, and Lukas Foss have written works for him. His playing and conducting have been captured on commercial recordings and archival recordings.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jan Williams Collection of Annotated Scores 1950-1999 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library )〕 In 2014 the Burchfield Penney Art Center celebrated Williams' 75th birthday with a special tribute concert. Williams conducted former students in a performance of Edgard Varèse's iconic percussion composition, Ionization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Celebrating The 75th Birthday Of Jan Williams > Events > Burchfield Penney Art Center )〕 Williams' daughter Amy Williams is a composer and pianist (Bugallo Williams Piano Duo) who performs new music for piano.〔http://artvoice.com/issues/v9n6/uncage_the_prepared_pianos〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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