Recent premieres include Coyote Dances by the Quad City Symphony, and Quintet for Piano and Strings premiered by himself and the Maia Quartet. He often collaborates with dance and theater groups including the Latina Dance Project's international touring show Coyolxauhqui ReMembers. He also works with socially conscious independent filmmakers in movies such as BombHunters and Finding Face by Spin Film, and composed the music for the recent zombie film Cadaver Christmas. His concert band music is published by BRS Music, and has been played throughout the country and featured at the MidWest Band Clinic. As a pianist and improviser, he performed with the acclaimed Sonoran Consort with whom he released two commercial CDs. Last spring he released a new CD, Piano Songs, of solo piano compositions that is available through all major outlets. Additionally, churches nationwide sing his music for worship every Sunday.

William is a member of ASCAP and CCLI, the American Composers Forum, and is a board member of the Iowa Composers Forum. He earned degrees from the University of Arizona (B.M.), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and the University of Oregon (Ph.D.). His dissertation was Earth Mass, a contemporary ecological, liturgical expression. He has led contemporary music at churches for over 15 years, and is the coordinator of contemporary music at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa. A passionate educator, he has taught music theory, composition, technology and world music classes at Pima Community College and Missouri State University. William is Associate Professor of Music Theory & Composition and Chair of the Music Department at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.
For details, please view his Academic CV.

From 1999--2001, he and his wife built a straw-bale house and music studio in the desert near Tucson, Arizona. To learn more about that adventure, please visit the HOMESTEAD section of this website.