William Winant, with Joan LaBarbara, Fred Frith, and Theresa Wong — Mills Music Now

Presented by the Center for Contemporary Music and Mills College at Northeastern University

This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is requested.

Program: 
 
Four⁶ (1992) by John Cage  
For any way of producing sounds (vocalizations, singing, playing of an instrument or instruments, electronics, ect.) 
 
For Pauline Oliveros to celebrate her 60th birthday and for Joan LaBarbara, William Winant, and Leonard Stein.  
 
& 

Open improvisation (in the style of Merce Cunningham Events) 
 

William Winant 
Grammy nominated percussionist William Winant has performed and collaborated with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time, including Joelle Leandre, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Frank Zappa, Keith Jarrett, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, James Tenney, Terry Riley, John Zorn, Cecil Taylor, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Barry Guy, Marilyn Crispell, George Lewis, Steve Reich and Musicians, Nexus, Charles Wuorinen, Jean-Philippe Collard, Frederic Rzewski, Ursula Oppens, Joan La Barbara, Annea Lockwood, Danny Elfman/Oingo Boingo, Ash Fure, Sonic Youth, Marc Ribot, Keith Rowe, Ikue Mori, Joey Barron, Lin Culbertson, Bill Frisell, Yo-Yo Ma, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, and the Kronos String Quartet.  
  
Mr. Winant has premiered many new works written specifically for him, by such noted composers as John Cage, Christian Wolff, Lou Harrison, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Bun-Ching Lam, Barbara Monk Feldman, Hi-Kyung Kim, Roscoe Mitchell, Wendy Reid, Ralph Shapey, Peter Garland, Michael Byron, Paul Dresher, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Chris Brown, David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Somei Satoh, and Wadada Leo Smith. Winant took part in the 1976 American premiere of John Cage's “Lecture on the Weather" at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Winant also performed in the 1992 premiere of Cage's “Four6," a piece dedicated to Winant, Pauline Oliveros, Joan La Barbara, and Leonard Stein. 
  
He has made over 200 recordings, covering a wide variety of genres, including music by Zeena Parkins, Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, John Zorn, Butch Morris, James Newton, Frank Gratkowski, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Jeanrenaud, Luc Ferrari, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Danny Elfman ("Batman Returns"), Siouxse and the Banshees, Secret Chiefs 3, ICP, Han Bennik, The Ex, White Out with Jim O’Rourke, Lou Reed, Thurston Moore, and Mike Patton.  
  
In 2016 he won a Grant to Artist Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 
  
Mr. Winant has been featured as a guest artist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (under the direction of Pierre Boulez), the San Francisco Symphony, and the Berkeley Symphony (Kent Nagano, director), as well as at Cabrillo Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, SF Jazz Festival, Central Park Summerstage, Ravinia Festival, Salzburg Festival, Donaueschingen Festival, Victoriaville, Holland Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Ojai Festival, Sonar Festival, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Taklos, Other Minds Festival, Lincoln Center, Melt Down Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Library of Congress, The Barbican, The Kennedy Center, Paris Opera, Disney Hall, Miller Theater Composer Portraits Series, Merkin Hall, Guggenheim Museum, and Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Winant received a B.F.A. from York University in 1978 and an M.F.A. from Mills College in 1982.