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This remarkable set of performances of new piano music by American composers has been released. I am so pleased to be among pianist Martin Jone's incredible interpretations on this CD. His promotional tour is underway included a performance on Live from WFMT on Monday, November 11th at 8PM.
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This remarkable set of performances of new piano music by American composers has been released. I am so pleased to be among pianist Martin Jone's incredible interpretations on this CD. His promotional tour is underway included a performance on Live from WFMT on Monday, November 11th at 8PM.
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This remarkable set of performances of new piano music by American composers has been released. I am so pleased to be among pianist Martin Jone's incredible interpretations on this CD. His promotional tour is underway included a performance on Live from WFMT on Monday, November 11th at 8PM.
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This remarkable set of performances of new piano music by American composers has been released. I am so pleased to be among pianist Martin Jone's incredible interpretations on this CD. His promotional tour is underway included a performance on Live from WFMT on Monday, November 11th at 8PM.
Six Preludes for piano

This remarkable set of performances of new piano music by American composers has been released. I am so pleased to be among pianist Martin Jone's incredible interpretations on this CD. His promotional tour is underway included a performance on Live from WFMT on Monday, November 11th at 8PM.

As a 2017 Concerto Competition winner, Fàtima performed the world premiere on July 15, 2017 with the Music Academy of the West Festival orchestra conducted by Matthew Aucoin in Santa Barbara, CA.

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Neil’s music is challenging yet never without shape, the experience being both intense and uplifting. CLASSICAL GUITAR

“The range of sonic experiences is astounding but always illuminates the music and the drama.” SOUNDBOARD MAGAZINE.

William Neil’s compositions present the listener with an intense brilliant effect. FANFARE MAGAZINE

His music represents contemporary writing at its most intellectual probing. CHICAGO TRIBUNE

His extremely characteristic harmonic world is fundamental to the unfolding of his music. CLASSICAL CD REVIEW

Future Events

2020

September, Badlands National Park, SD, Artist-in-Residence

July 27, Sacrum Creaturae (String Quartet No. 1), Artaria String Quartet, Bonfire Chamber Music Festival, Grand Rapids, MN POSTPONED

August 9-23, Sacrum Creaturae (String Quartet No. 1), Artaria String Quartet, Lanesboro, MN POSTPONED

2019

January 27th, 27 Birds and Canis Lupus: Lamentation for piano and saxophones and digital acoustics, with Laurent Estoppey, saxophonist, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC.

April 6th, Objets Trouvés for Flute and Piano, Out of Our Minds Chamber Series, Jonathan Borja, flute and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI click here for more info

April 11th, Love poem with a Knife, Pro Musica Concert Series, for two guitars, violin and soprano, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC

May 15th, High On A Mountain, South Point High School, for solo clarinet and symphonic band, Belmont, NC

May 25th, Six Tangos for solo piano, Giacomo Dalla Libera,piano, Teatro alla Specola, Via San Tomaso 3, Padova, Padua, Italy

July 26th, Spiritual Adaptation to Higher Altitudes for Clarinet and Vibraphone, ClarinetFest 2019, Corey Mackey, clarinet and Keith Lienert, vibraphone, Knoxville, KY

November 6th, 7:30 PM, Night of Wolves, with Karyn Quinn, double bass, and Tom Gullion, saxophones, alto flute and bass clarinet, The La Crosse New Music Festival, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

November 10th, 4pm, Six Preludes for Piano Solo, Martin Jones, piano, 1st Presbyterian Church in Arlington Heights, IL http://firstpresah.org/events/

November 11th, 8pm, Six Preludes for Piano Solo, Live from WFMT, Martin Jones, piano WFMT Radio in Chicago https://www.wfmt.com/listen/

2018

November 9th, 6 Preludes for Piano, Martin Jones, piano, Radford University, Radford, VA

November 4th, (3pm) Cabaret Songs, Out of Our Minds Chamber Series, Ann Schoenecker, soprano and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

October 12th and 13th, 12:15 PM Canis Lupus, International Wolf Symposium, Minneapolis, MN

October 7th, 7PM Six Tangos for Solo Piano, TheComposerStudio.Com-HouseConcerts, with Tom Gullion, April Dahl, and Bassem Elhassan, Castle La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

April 21 (7:30pm) The Waters are Shaking the Moon, Down to Earth,Out of This World, Ann Schoenecker, soprano and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano. Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

March 22nd (7:30pm) Out of Darkness into Light, UNCW New Music Festival, Univ. of NC, Wilmington, NC

March 18th (3pm) Spiritual Adaptation to Higher Altitudes, Corey Mackey, Clarinet, & Keith Leinert, vibraphone, Brodbeck Hall, Univ. WI, Platteville Performing Arts Center

March 11th (5PM) 3 Tangos, Between Italy and America, Giacomo Dalla Libera, piano, Sala SOSAT, Trento, Italia

2017

October 8th, (6pm) Four Tangos for Piano, Tango Society of Rochester, MN, William Neil, piano, Rochester, MN

September 23rd Premiere of A Feather in a Shell, a cycle of 6 songs on original poems, Paola Velvet, alto, William Neil, piano, Auditorium Convento dei SS Apostoli, Rome, Italy

July 15th (7:30PM) Concerto for Piccolo Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra, Fàtima Boix Canto’, Clarinet, The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA

May 27th (4PM) Prelude No. 3, Tango No. 1, and Nocturne No. 1, Giacomo dalla Libera, pianist
Morley College, London, UK

March 30th, Out of Darkness Into Light,
Pro Musica Ensemble
Cameron Art Museum
Wilmington, NC

2016

December 23rd, 8PMApril 11th, 2015 Project FourthStream Nostras Voces Concert Broadcast
, WFMT Radio in Chicago

November 13th, Project FourthStream CD Release Concert
Letihold Music, La Crosse, WI

November 6th Tango No. 1 for Piano and Clarinet
Mark Tollefsen, piano and Corey Mackey, Clarinet
Viterbo University Recital Hall
La Crosse, WI

September 18th, New Work
Project FourthStream with Issam Rafea, Oud
Benefit Concert for Syrian Refugee
In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

2015

November 1st Twenty Seven Birds, Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano, William Neil, piano and digital acoustics
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL

October 24th Sinfonia delle Gioie, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, La Crosse, WI

June 27th Green,White and Red Concert, William Neil piano,
Accademia della Musica
Santa Sofia d’Epiro, Italy

June 18th Piano Trio “Notte dei Cristalli”, Trio Malipiero, Padua, Italy

April 11th Nostras Voces with Project FourthStream, St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago, IL

2014
November 11th Project FourthStream, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, WI

September 26th Sound Design for Glass
Menagerie, Tandem Theatre Milwaukee, WI

January 27th Notte dei Cristalli, Cadoneghe, Italy

2013
November 26th We All Sing, Citywide Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, St. John’s Catholic Church Charlotte, NC

November 6th Where There is No Autumn, La Crosse, WI

August 25th Tango for Malgosia for guitar and cello, Gargnano, Italy

June 17th – World Premiere of Notte dei Cristalli , Crespano sul Grappa (VI), Italy

March 1-24th Sound Design for Beast on the Moon, In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

February 2013 Twenty Seven Birds with Project FourthStream, Viroqua, WI

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