Mike Williams

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “one of the city's best percussionists,” Mike Williams has performed throughout North America and Europe and is an active performer in Boston. An advocate for contemporary music, he is a founding artist and the ensemble director of Guerilla Opera, with whom he has commissioned and premiered dozens of operas since 2007. Williams has worked with many of the leading composers of our time including Pierluigi Billone, Michael Finnissy, Philippe Leroux, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gunther Schuller, and Roger Reynolds. He was a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center and has performed at festivals including Gaudeamus Music Week, the Festival de Mexico, the Internacional Cervantino Festival, Monadnock Music, the Gaida Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, among many others. As an orchestral musician, he performs with groups including Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Portland Symphony, Springfield Symphony, and the Boston Pops. Williams studied at Boston Conservatory, winning top prize in the concerto competition, and the Amsterdam Conservatory. Williams serves on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.