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"....a quasi-orchestral pallete of coloristic effects...deftly realized by Anderson as he shaped each entry with epigrammatic concentration." – Thomas May, The Washington Post

"...William Anderson’s skills are both mesmerizing and inspiring..."
-- Take Effect

"...the alert guitarist..."
-- NY Times

This is my third year as Director of Classical and New Music for The Village Trip.

We're now gearing up for The Village Trip '23

some highlights --

--Sept 14 at Loft393 In Memory of Scott Johnson, with his electrifying "Bowery Haunt" for two electric guitars. Scott Johnson is a maverick. More than anyone else and on a grand scale, he built downtown up into a big city by thinking hard about what makes a big moment right, not gratuitous. That's achieved with compositional chops. If you were waiting for the downtown scene to ripen into something.....*masterful and exalted*--you have that in the work of Scott Johnson. You have to be ok with rock idioms.

--Sept 16 GFest 2 -- The Mel Powell Centenary at St. John's in the Village featuring his song for the Benny Goodman Orchestra, "My Guy's Come Back"

--Sept 16 GFest 3 featuring David Leisner Mel Powell's creative trajectory leads him to a Pulitzer Prize for a work in a modernist idiom, bringing him into the musical universe of composers like Chester Biscardi, Bun-Ching Lam and Larua Kaminsky, whose works will be performed by guitar master David Leisner. Mel Powell’s guitar solo, “Setting”, was written for David Starobin in 1986, shortly before he won his Pulitzer. ”Setting” will be performed on GuitarFest 3 by Xingxing Yao, from Hangzhou, 17 years of age, a student of David Starobin & Jason Vieaux at the Curtiss Institute.

– William Kentner Anderson

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William Kentner Anderson Der Weg ins Freie
2019, Furious Artisans (facd6819)

William Kentner Anderson Der Weg ins Freie

2019, Furious Artisans (facd6819)

Works


From the New Focus Website

Guitarist/composer William Kentner Anderson releases a collection of works ... music is not like anything else, often engaging with simple musical materials-pop songs, folksongs and folk lyrics. He breaks barriers-asking his guitarists to sing backup vocals, incorporating Tibetan overtone singing in his setting of Djuna Barnes' "Paradise", integrating an uillean piper into the Cygnus Ensemble.


Camerata 21, Vol. 04
2018, Marsyas Productions

Camerata 21, Vol. 04

2018, Marsyas Productions

Works by Mario Davidovsky, Emil Awad, Jeffrey Nichols, Jose Saldaña, William Anderson, Robert Pollock

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Nameless: Works by Matthew Greenbaum
2015, Furious Artisans (FACD6812)

Nameless: Works by Matthew Greenbaum

2015, Furious Artisans (FACD6812)

Matthew Greenbaum is the only composer in New York to be a mentee of both Stefan Wolpe and Mario Davidovsky. Wolpe was one of the many great minds who were forced to our shores by historical circumstances, and arriving here, found that there was interest in what they had to offer. Stravinsky, Hindemith, Krenek, Schoenberg, as well as Stefan Wolpe all tried to put down roots in the Western Hemisphere, with varied success. Or, perhaps it’s more fair to say that their influence is paying off very slowly over a long period of time.


Music of Johann Kaspar Mertz
2013, Titanic Records

Music of Johann Kaspar Mertz

2013, Titanic Records

This is Anderson's first solo album.