JOHN R. WILLIAMSON  
COMPOSER

 

John R. Williamson, (b.1929)
B.Mus (Dunelm), F.L.C.M., L.R.A.M., A.R.M.C.M

 

31a Aberconway Road
Prestatyn
Denbighshire
North Wales
LL19 9HL
UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 1745 852067

 

e-mail:  johnr16williamson@amserve.com

 

PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

  

SALES OF RECORDINGS AND SHEET MUSIC

 

Listen to extracts from three works by John Williamson 
Palindromic Prelude 10 The Recruit White in the Moon

John R. Williamson has a unique style of composition which he describes as 'palindromic.' His music is also in an English tradition and uses a modal language.

 

John R. Williamson has an entry in The British Contemporary Music Anthology 1996/7 for his song, The Ploughman.  Shortlisted/recorded at Jubilee Song Competition - EPSS/BMS, Bristol 2002.

 
His piano music has been performed at the British Music Information Centre; the Royal Northern College of Music; Chetham's Music School, Manchester; Chester; Rhyl and other N. Wales music clubs.

 
His work has been recorded by Nigel Shaw, baritone and John McCabe, piano.  Also by Murray McLachlan (piano); Ronald Frost (organ) and John Scott Trio. Three Songs are also recorded on the Campion Label with Mark Rowlinson (baritone) and Peter Lawson (piano). 2004

 
Reflections No.1, music for recorder and piano is included in the Trinity Examination Syllabus for 2003 - 2006

 

  • Memberships:
    North West Composers' Association    , English Poetry and Song Society, Performing Right Society Ltd., Friend of the British Music Information Society, The British Music Society, SPNM, The Housman Society, Composers of Wales.
  • Publishers:
    Curiad - Sonatina and Reflections (for descant recorder and piano)
    Animus - Organ Sonata and 2 Chansons for Organ (2004)
    Da Capo - Housman Songs; 6 Mosaics for solo guitar; The Pied Piper for Children's Choir and Soloists; PIano Trio; PIano Sonatina; Lament for Sarah for solo piano; 'Cello Sonata
    Piper - Flute Sonatina; [Bassoon Sonata; Flute Sonata; Woodwind Quartet; Suite for Clarinet and Piano] all in preparation
    Recital Music - Sonata No.1  for double bass and piano; Mirrors for double bass and piano; 8 Zoological Sketches for double bass and piano
  • Selected Works available from the composer in Ms:
         Six Sonatas for Piano
    12 New Preludes
    108 Palindromic Preludes - the composer's own personal technique (9 sets of 12 each)
    25 Duo Sonatas for various Orchestral Instruments
    Wind in the Willows - three part songs for children's choir
    Chamber Music for Strings - various ensembles
    Chamber Music for  Wind - various ensembles
    'Cello Concerto
    Diversions for Piano and Orchestra (dur. 21 minutes)
  • John R.Williamson specialises in the setting of poems by A. E. Housman:
         110 songs for Baritone/Soprano and Piano - Shropshire lad and other Housman poems; settings also of Mew, Nicholson, Byron, Coleridge, de la Mare, Alun Lewis

  • Awards:
    John Williamson was awarded third place in the 2004 English Poetry and Song Society competition for his two songs based on war poems of Siegfried Sassoon.  These were performed in Bristol on November 13th 2004.

  • Recordings:
         Contemporary British Piano Music, Volume 2
    3 Palindromic Preludes for Piano (Nos.2,6 and 8)
    John McCabe - piano ASC CS CD3

    Serendipity
    Mosaics for Solo Guitar
    Jonathan Richards - guitar

    Divine Art
    3 More Mosaics for Solo Guitar
    Jonathan Richards - guitar

Dunelm Records DRD0134
Music for Piano Volume 1
Murray McLachlan - piano 

Dunelm Records DRD0176
Music for Piano Volume 2
Murray McLachlan and John R. Williamson - piano

Dunelm Records DRD0199
Piano Trio
This CD also has Trios by Bayliss and Wood.

Dunelm Records DRD00220
Songs by 10 Contemporary British Composers of the NWCA - 2004
Includes: Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly; The Recruit; White in the Moon  (Housman - Williamson)

Dunelm Records DRD0257
24 Housman Songs
Nigel Shaw - baritone and John R. Williamson - piano

Dunelm Records 
Cello Sonata (Diane Porteous, cello and Kathryn Page, piano)

New Recordings:
Dunelm Records DRD0267
Lads of Love and Sorrow
25 Songs (Housman, Sassoon, Byron, Coleridge - Mark Rowlinson (baritone) and David Jones (piano)

Dunelm Records DRD0265
Music for Woodwind
3 woodwind sonatas and sonatinas - flute, bassoon, clarinet with piano

 

PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDINGS FOR SALE
  • DISCS
24 Housman Songs £10.00
Music for Piano, Volume 1 - Murray McLachlan, piano £10.00
Music for Piano, Volume 2 - Murray McLachlan, piano £10.00
Contemporary British Piano Music, Volume 2 £10.00
Piano Trios £10.00
Cello Sonata (includes two other works by Drakeford and Holmboe) £10.00
Organ Music, Volume 6 Ronald Frost, organ (includes Sonata by John R. Williamson)  £10.00
  • SCORES
Sonatina for piano and descant recorder (Curiad) £5.99
Reflections for piano and descant recorder (Curiad) £5.99
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - cantata for children's choir, SSAA £8.00
Piano Trio £10.00
Piano Sonatina £5.00
Lament for Sarah (for piano solo) £4.00
Cello Sonata £10.00
Organ Sonata £10.00
2 Organ Chansons £6.00
6 Housman Songs
The Ploughman £3.95
White in the Moon £3.95
Think no more lad  £3.95
The Farms of Home £3.95
It nods and curtseys  £3.95
The Recruit  £3.95
The Farms of Home/It nods and curtseys as one publication £5.00
4 Housman Songs The Isle of Portland; I wake from dreams; When Adam walked in Eden, young; The Mill Stream £8.00
3 More Housman Songs Additional Poems XV and XIV; Parta Quies £8.00
2 Sassoon Settings - I stood with the Dead; Before the Battle
3 Part Songs - Housman: When I was one and twenty; How clear, how bright; Loveliest of Trees

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