Derek Williams

Composer, Conductor, Arranger with 27 IMDb film music credits and 33 Discogs album recording credits. 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. Commissions also performed at the 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.