Tristram Williams- Trumpet.
Tristram Williams maintains a busy international career as a leading young soloist, ensemble musician, improvisor and educator. He has appeared as a soloist in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Britain, USA, China and many times around Australia, with orchestras such as the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Het Brabants Orkest, Beethoven Academy Orchestra (Antwerp) and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has been a guest of international Arts or Music Festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Huddersfield, Aix-en-Provence, St. Petersburg, and the Canary Islands.
Williams is particularly interested in new music, and has worked with composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Barrett, Liza Lim, James McMillan, Chris Dench and Tim O'Dwyer. He has given Premieres in Australia of solo trumpet works by Stockhausen, Zimmermann, Carter and Robert Erikson, and as a member of the New Music Ensemble ELISION, many first performances including works by Ferneyhough, Lim, Barrett, and Karski. Williams is also an avid improvisor, and has an electro-acoustic group, based at SIAL sound studios at RMIT, called DIODE.
Williams was Associate Principal Trumpet of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at age 21, before resigning in 2006 after 7 years to concentrate on his solo career. He has performed as acting Principal Trumpet with most of the Australian Orchestras, and in 2004 was invited by Markus Stenz to play principal trumpet in the Guerzenich Orchester's 100th Anniversary concert of their premiere of Mahler's 5th Symphony in Cologne. He has also performed with the Australian Art Orchestra under Paul Grabowsky, and is a founding member of the Elliott Carter Brass Quintet.
Tristram Williams is Lecturer of Trumpet at the University of Melbourne. His teachers have included Armando Ghitalla, Hakan Hardenberger, Reinhold Friedrich, Markus Stockhausen, Daniel Mendelow and John Kellaway. He is a laureate of major international trumpet competitions in Brussels and Eindhoven, and was awarded a prize from Karlheinz Stockhausen at the 2006 Stockhausen Interpreters Course. Tristram was the winner of a 2007 ABC Young Performers Award.
Oh my, am I shit... I am so sorry I never got to your birthday drinks... it all came down to a fridge that was leaky when I got home after doing a gig and I had to clean the bastard. It took time. How was it?? Kazz !
Just got home from America, thankyou so much for telling me about it, it was by far the best musical experience of my life. Be great to catch up sometime for a drink. In the meantime you can check out our band at www.myspace.com/theshaker7 hope you're well, Huw
Hey mate - music sounds killer, beautiful playing Stockhausen is one scary dude I see you're heading this way - would love to hook up for a lesson Catch ya
