William Dougherty

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William Dougherty was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1988. He earned his B.M. degree in composition, with a concentration in piano, from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in 2010. As a Marshall Scholar, William earned his MMus in composition from the Royal College of Music, London in 2012 working with Mark-Anthony Turnage and Kenneth Hesketh. That same year, William pursued Ergänzungsstudium (supplementary studies) with Georg Friedrich Haas at the MusikAkademie der Stadt Basel.

His works have been performed and workshopped internationally by ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lorraine, the BBC Singers, the London Chorus, the Lontano Ensemble, and the Ligeti String Quartet. His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and the Financial Times podcast ‘FT Science.’ Dougherty has received recognitions and awards from the BMI Student Composer Awards, the PRS for Music Society, Sound and Music, the American Composers Forum, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, Le Conservatoire Americain de Fontainebleau, the Institute for European Studies, and the UK Foreign Aid and Commonwealth Office.

As a student of composition, William has participated in masterclasses with composers such as Philippe Hurel, Hughes Dufourt, Beat Furrer, PierluigiBillone, and Mark Andre. As a scholar, William has written and presented research into the life and works of Romanian composer, HoratiuRadulescu, in the UK and Switzerland. His article on Radulescus 5th String Quartet ‘before the universe was born’ can be found in the April 2014 edition of the contemporary music journal, TEMPO.

William is currently pursuing a Doctorate of the Musical Arts (DMA) at Columbia University under the guidance of Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, and Fred Lerdahl.

www.williamdougherty.org
Tri par année. Les pièces les plus recentes apparaissent d'abord

Orchestre Symphonique


The dreams of imagined homelands for symphony Orchestra (2023)

Ensemble de Chambre (5 - 9 instruments)


Old red barn for violin, viola, cello, Bb clarinet (bass clarinet), electric guitar, and fixed media (2021)

Ensemble (Instruments ou voix) et électronique fixée


Soft brown wax for 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, feedback piano, and fixed media (2019)
The new normal for mixed ensemble and fixed media (2016)

Quatuor à Cordes


There was never ground beneath your feet for string quartet (2018)
The Aureole Effect (2012)

Ensemble (10 - 19 instruments)


…what goes up… (2014)

Groupe de Chambre (2 - 4 instruments)


There was never ground beneath your feet for string quartet (2018)
Three Formants (2014)
Beat(ing) (2013)
Within a Region (2013)
Zwischen for baritone saxophone, accordion, and cello (2013)
Megadont (2012)
The Aureole Effect (2012)
Cold Blue (2011)

Soliste (Instrument ou voix) et électronique fixée


Nyuidj (2013)

Musique Orchestrale


The dreams of imagined homelands for symphony Orchestra (2023)
Into Focus (2012)
Beat(ing) (2013)
Cold Blue (2011)
Into Focus (2012)
Megadont (2012)
Nyuidj (2013)
Old red barn for violin, viola, cello, Bb clarinet (bass clarinet), electric guitar, and fixed media (2021)
Soft brown wax for 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, feedback piano, and fixed media (2019)
The Aureole Effect (2012)
The dreams of imagined homelands for symphony Orchestra (2023)
The new normal for mixed ensemble and fixed media (2016)
There was never ground beneath your feet for string quartet (2018)
Three Formants (2014)
Within a Region (2013)
Zwischen for baritone saxophone, accordion, and cello (2013)
…what goes up… (2014)