William is a consummate composer, pianist and improviser. In addition to European and American art music, he has studied and performed music of West Africa, Bali and Native America, and integrates a wide variety of these musical influences into the sounds of the Sonoran Consort. His personal and unique musical sensitivity synthesizes old and new, secular and sacred, into a powerfully cohesive whole. William's music has been performed throughout North America by orchestras, chamber groups, vocalists, and in theater productions. Additionally, he has composed for films and stage productions, and his worship music is sung every Sunday in multiple churches across the country. William earned his Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the University of Oregon, and holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of Arizona. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. He is a member of ASCAP, College Music Society, and the American Composers Forum, and is a board member of the Iowa Composers Forum.