Derek Williams

Composer, Conductor, Arranger with 27 IMDb film music credits and 37 Discogs album recording credits. Known for his scores for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Bodysurfer, Children of the Dragon, Come in Spinner, The Crossing, Crush, Frauds, The Other Side of Paradise, Ring of Scorpio, Seven Deadly Sins, Thank God He Met Lizzie, Visionaries. Notable Industry awards his commissions have contributed to include Palme d’Or, Logie, Golden Raven, IndieFest Film Festival, Australian Film Institute, Starboy, Los Angeles Film Festival best film, BAFTA, Best Film Score (NZ), an Oscar, Platinum record sales and an Australian Aria Award nomination. Stars in films whose scores he has orchestrated and conducted include Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Commissions also performed at the Tivoli Glassalen, Sydney Opera House, Hamer Hall Melbourne, Royal Albert Hall, Parma Conservatorio and the Sala Accademica di Santa Cecilia (Rome). Orchestras conducted both in live and recorded performance, include (in Australia): the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra, Waverley Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and Newcastle Symphony Orchestra, and in Scotland: East Lothian Festival Orchestra, Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group and the Composers’ Orchestra, Scottish Opera Orchestra, Abbotsford String Orchestra and Linlithgow String Orchestra. Since 2007 has taught Composition and Orchestration at Edinburgh University where he is currently teaching Screen Composition. Client list includes Stella Cole, Mikkel Rønnow, Caroline O'Connor, Torvill & Dean, Guy Gross, Antony Partos, Martin Armiger, Frank Bennett, Sir Robert Helpmann, Sir Howard Morrison, University of Edinburgh, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, EMI Music, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ATN Channel 9, Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Broadcom and numerous others.