Graham Williams was artistic director of Music Past & Present from 1995 to 2015. He also taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 2004 to 2010.
Graham Williams studied viola at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and studied composition privately with Richard Rodney Bennett. He is a prolific composer, and his works have received much critical acclaim both here and abroad as well as winning a number of prestigious awards including the William Mathias Composition Prize in 2007 for his work Within the Garden of Memory.
He has also composed a wide variety of chamber music for groups such as Lontano, the Leopold String Trio, the Brindisi and Bingham String Quartets and the Feinstein Ensemble.
His works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
