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Alan Williams

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Biography

 

Alan Edward Williams was born in Manchester in 1970, and studied composition at Edinburgh University with Nigel Osborne and Peter Nelson, Manchester University with Geoff Poole and John Casken, and at the

Liszt Academy in Budapest with János Vajda.

He was awarded the degree of PhD in composition by the University of Manchester in 2000.

His music has been performed and broadcast by some of the UK's leading

ensembles, including the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Singers, Psappha, the Lindsay String Quartet, the Philharmonia and the choir of Clare College, Cambridge.

As well as composing, Alan is also one of the leading researchers in Britain on Hungarian contemporary music and culture.

He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Salford, and lives in Delph, Saddleworth with his wife Justine and son Eden (b.16th August 2002) and daughter Iris (b. 3rd March 2004)