Milton Williams, Conductor
Currently available at vmemilt@sbcglobal.net.
Rehearsing Leonard Bernstein’s
“MASS”
at
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Milton Williams was the Choral and Opera Rehearsal Conductor for The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music for nine years. He also conducted for The University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, California State University East Bay, and Notre Dame de Namur University. He performed internationally as a professional conductor and vocalist, having appeared in orchestral, music theater, and orchestral-choral performances in Western, Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe, and Canada.
Conductor
Milton Williams conducted The Solisti Singers, The Solisti Theater Orchestra, six of the University of California Student Division of Vocal Music’s eight vocal ensembles, the Banff Festival of the Arts Chorale and Professional Orchestra, the Notre Dame de Namur University Vocal Ensembles and Orchestra, and The Peninsula Youth Orchestra of Burlingame California.
Guest Conductor
He was a guest conductor with the San Francisco Symphony Pops Orchestra and the San Francisco Civic Chorale. In the summer of 2000, he was the Associate Conductor for Pope John Paul II’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s “MASS,” at the Vatican, Rome, Italy.
Assistant Conductor
Williams performed his Assistant Conductor duties with The Oakland Symphony, Harold Farberman Music Director/Conductor.
Milton Williams conducted his U.C. Berkeley students, professional vocal soloists, professional dancers, and Oakland Symphony, with Norbert Vesak of the Metropolitan Opera and Stuttgart Ballet as Director and Choreographer. He was also the Associate Conductor for the Vatican’s production of “MASS,” and performed as an Ensemble singer, Bass Soloist, and Narrator for the Carnegie Hall presentation of Leonard Bernstein’s Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers, “MASS,” Robert Bass Conductor.
He Conducted his own Theater Oratorio
“Espying”
at The University of California, Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall in a Concert Performance,
and the fully-staged world premier at The Banff Festival of the Arts
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by J. S. Bach
Milton Williams, Conductor
Johannes Brahms
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U.C. Berkeley Chorale
Prepared by Milton Williams
The Vatican’s Bernstein's “MASS”
Vocal Ensemble Coached
and
Orchestra Prepared by
Milton Williams
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for Audio File