1st movement of a work in progress
Francois Laurin Burgess, clarinet
Sarah Arnold, violin
Juliana Han, piano

Recorded live at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, August 2013

Hebbian Theory (1st mvt)

Hebbian Theory, in 3 movements

Ludek Wojtkowski, violin
Miki Sawada, piano
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet, bass clarinet

Premiere performance, recorded live in concert at Morse Recital Hall, Yale School of Music as part of the 'New Music New Haven' series, 2 October 2014.

Video available at http://vimeo.com/williamgardiner/gardiner-h-th-3

III. long-term potentiation

II. soma

I. hebbian theory

Recorded 14 May 2012 at the Yale School of Music
Anouvong Liensavanh, flute
Igal Levin, bass clarinet
Victor Caccese, percussion
Ian O'Sullivan, electric guitar
Daniel Schlosberg, piano
Laura Keller, violin
Tim LaCrosse, viola
Hannah Collins, cello
Mike Levin, bass
Greg Robbins, conductor
Eugene Kimball, recording engineer
William Gardiner, composition, electronics, mix

h e d g e h o g

Live performance
New Music New Haven, 4 October 2012
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale School of Music
Jihyun Kim, Gowoon Choi, violins
Jess Li, viola
Haeyoon Shin, cello

Prism (for string orchestra)

William Gardiner is an Australian composer of music for acoustic and electronic instruments. 

Gardiner’s output includes works for symphony orchestra, chamber music, and early music ensembles, but also frequently involves electronic media and amplified instruments. He brings an ear honed in recording studios to his work, which has been performed at venues including the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Sydney Opera House, Yale University’s Morse Recital Hall, and REDCAT Los Angeles. In September 2015 the LA-based ensemble wild Up premiered ‘Chiaroscuro’, commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum National Composition Contest, in which Gardiner was selected as one of three winners from 479 entries. He is also a recipient of the Presser Foundation Graduate Award (2013), a winner of the Albany Symphony Orchestra's 'Composer to Center Stage' competition (2013), and was a 2014 fellow in composition at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at Massachusetts MoCA.
Gardiner’s work has been credited as “absolutely stunning…a bright beacon of things to come” (Adam Mills, Mess+Noise magazine) and “emotional without emotions, and utterly spellbinding” (Elizabeth Hambleton, New Classic LA). Anthony D’Amico (brainwashed.com) attributes “a coherent vision and a rare ability to incorporate outside influences seamlessly into it ... classical music needs more new blood like this.”

Born in 1987, William Gardiner is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Music in the United States, where he was mentored by David Lang, Martin Bresnick and Aaron Jay Kernis. He previously attended the University of Sydney, where he received degrees in Arts and Law.

William Gardiner

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