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His works have been
broadcast on NPR, Capitol Public Radio, and other local television and radio
stations, and he co-wrote and produced the 2002-3 theme music for the
Sacramento Kings basketball team. He has been awarded 3 Sacramento music
awards for his work in the acid jazz/funk group The Mind Club, and has been
featured in Electronic Musician and 20th Century Guitar magazines.
His most
recent work is the 2007 CD "A Circle of Hidden Intentions", in which he
combines solo acoustic guitar and live-looping technology to create
minimalistic, multi-layered, grooving instrumental pieces all perfomed live
in real time in his home studio. Greg performs regularly throughout Northern
California, and he has performed in the United States, Canada, England,
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
Greg has also played prestigious
electro-acoustic music festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe Arts Festival
in Scotland, the Y2K7 International Live-Looping Festival in Santa Cruz CA,
and the Northern California Festival of New American Music. Greg received
his BM in classical guitar performance at Sacramento State under Dr. Richard
Savino, and his MM in Composition under Stephen Blumberg.
Greg is currently
on the faculty at Sacramento State teaching beginning guitar classes and
general education music history classes, and spends his summers and winters
performing, composing, and recording. Greg is also an avid home brewer, and
enjoys brewing and consuming such beers as Dunkelhead Dunkelweizen, Pride of
38th Street Bitter, and Blackheart Stout.
Greg's Influences:
Jimmy Page, J.S. Bach, Ralph Towner, Steve Reich, Mike Oldfield, Julian
Bream, Frank Zappa, Heitor Villa-Lobos, the sublime 16th Century Italian
lute music of Francesco Canova da Milano, M.C. Escher, Balinese Gamelan
music, West African polyrhythmic drumming, John Bonham, John Renbourn,
Michael Hedges, Michael Schenker, Steve Howe, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix.
Photo credit: Mark Hamburg
Greg Williams has been an active guitarist, composer, educator, and
all-around churl in the Sacramento, CA area for almost 20 years. He has
performed, written and recorded in various musical disciplines including
contemporary classical, electronic, acid jazz, folk/rock, heavy metal, and
specialized music for radio, television and film.
