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John Williams

b. 1932

American

Summary

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but four of his feature films––Duel, The Color Purple, Bridge of Spies, and Ready Player One. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993, and is currently the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).
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Performances

20th April 2024

SOLOISTS
Jennifer Stephen
PERFORMERS
Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR
Martin McDonald
LOCATION
PC Ho Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada

18th May 2024

PERFORMERS
Bath Philharmonia
CONDUCTOR
Jason Thornton
LOCATION
The Forum, Bath, United Kingdom

28th May 2024

SOLOISTS
Daniel Hope, violin; Jan Vogler cello
PERFORMERS
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
CONDUCTOR
Anna Rakitina
LOCATION
Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany

8th June 2024

PERFORMERS
Orchester Äskulap Berlin
CONDUCTOR
Jens Albert
LOCATION
Bürgerhaus, Neuenhagen, Germany

4th August 2024

PERFORMERS
City Light Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR
Kevin Griffiths
LOCATION
Arena Klosters, Klosters, Switzerland
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