Projects
Shadows: The Unaccompanied Viola Sonatas of Günter Raphael
Gregory Williams’s debut album, SHADOWS, was released on February 2, 2024 through Affetto Records, a subsidiary of Naxos.
Ensembles
Golden Williams Duo
The Golden Williams Duo first performed together in 2017 at the Custer Institute and Observatory in Southold, NY, as members of The Red Door Chamber Players.
More recently, the Golden Williams Duo has performed at Spectrum Music, Symphony Space’s Bar Thalia, Regalia Roasting Collective, Willets Road School, Zion Lutheran Church (Pittsfield, MA), Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (NYC), Metropolitan Playhouse, Castle Village, the Music Conservatory of Westchester, the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, Sumner and Hotchkiss Halls in Chestertown, MD, Mountain Springs Music Festival in Draper, Utah, and at the Bi-Annual Conference of the American Viola Society held at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, California.
The Golden Williams Duo is committed to collaborations with living composers and has premiered works such as David Bertrand’s Bourg Mulatresse, Clarissa Baquiran’s ŠĮŃGKÏŁ, David Wolfson’s Mood Swings, Leonor Falcon’s No. 1 and No. 2, and Michael Kosch’s Sassetta.
The Golden Williams Duo has also performed works by New York City-based composers Jessica Meyer, Nick Revel, Caroline Shaw, and Paul Wiancko.
Writing
The Eclectic Violist: We Shall
George Taylor’s video project and thoughts on a career as a Black violist in America. Journal of the American Viola Society, 37, Online Edition (2021): 49–54. Co-authored with Leanne Darling.
Music Reviews: Irish Melodies
Journal of the American Viola Society 36, no. 2 (2020): 51–52
Music Reviews
Journal of the American Viola Society, 36, no. 1 (2020): 46–49
Music Reviews
- Brett Dean: Intimate Decisions
- James MacMillan: Viola Concerto
- Elliott Carter: Figment IV
Journal of the American Viola Society, 34, no. 2 (2018): 52–57
Rocking the Boat: Twenty-First Century Music for the Viola that Inspires Social Change
Journal of the American Viola Society, 29, no. 1 (2013): 57–67
Gregory K. Williams 