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Natalie Williams is currently a Doctoral Fellow and Associate Instructor in Composition at the Jacob's School of Music at Indiana University (USA). She completed a Masters Degree in Composition at the University of Melbourne in 2002 and holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Musicology from the University of Adelaide (Elder Conservatorium), graduating with first class Honours in 1998. She has studied under composers; Claude Baker, Don Freund, Robert Beaser, Brenton Broadstock, Aaron Travers and Graeme Koehne.

Her works have been commissioned and performed by Australian and international ensembles, including the Adelaide, Melbourne & West Australian Symphony Orchestras, the Australian and Sydney Youth Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Song Company, the Zephyr String Quartet, Adelaide Youth Orchestra, the Cameo Trio, Melbourne University Orchestra, Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Fiorini Trio (UK), Syntony and the Brenton Langbein String Quartet. Her output includes music for film, theatre, chamber and orchestral genres.

Further academic training was completed in September 2010 at the Society for Music Analysis Summer School in Durham (UK). Natalie was awarded a scholarship to attend the school and work with eminent theorist, William Caplin. She also furthered her studies in composition in July 2007, at the European American Musical Alliance summer school at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris.

Williams was a joint recipient of the Inaugural Schueler Awards for a new work "Whistleblower", commissioned for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and premiered to an audience of 30,000 in February 2007. Recent major projects include a commission from Adelaide Baroque for a series of four new works for their 2007 concert season, through funding from the Australia Council. She was the youngest Australian composer commissioned by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra to compose a Fanfare for their 75th Birthday series in 2003. She has worked with composers such as Philip Glass, Peter Sculthorpe, Robert Beaser, Brett Dean and Narcis Bonet and conductors Martyn Brabbins, James Judd, Kevin Field and Professor John Hopkins. In 2005 Williams was commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Cybec Foundation for a new work for their Metropolis series which was premiered to critical acclaim. She was also commissioned by Ars Musica Australis to compose a Viola Concerto for the Australian Youth Orchestra's 2005 Young Symphonists Program.

In 2006 Williams won the APRA Professional Development Awards in the Classical Music category, and a scholarship from the Opus 50 Charitable Trust (Melbourne) enabling further overseas study. She reached the finals of the 2001 Young Australian of the Year Awards and held an Australian Postgraduate Research Scholarship for Composition studies at Melbourne University. In 2006 she was awarded a Jacob's School of Music Fellowship which includes full scholarship and a teaching position at the Indiana University School of Music. She was also awarded the Michael Iovenko scholarship for composition study in Paris in 2007 and a Society of Music Theory (UK) scholarship to attend its 2010 Summer School in Durham (UK).

Natalie is a fully represented composer at the Australian Music Centre, a member of the American Composers Forum and the Australasian Performing Rights Association. She has worked in arts administration, at the Australian National Academy of Music and on the management team of Orchestra Victoria.

Natalie Williams — current to July 2010