Brandon Williams is an Associate Professor and the Director of Choral Activities at
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he conducts the Rutgers Kirkpatrick
Choir, the Rutgers Glee Club, and leads the Graduate Choral Conducting program. Previously,
he conducted the Rutgers Voorhees Choir, which was selected to perform at Carnegie
Hall (2019) and Eastern ACDA (2020, 2024). Dr. Williams also appears internationally
as a guest conductor, clinician, and presenter.
Dr. Williams amassed a decade of middle and high school teaching experience in St.
Louis, Missouri, where he also served on the voice faculty at Maryville University
and as a conductor with the St. Louis Symphony IN UNISON Chorus and the St. Louis
Children’s Choirs. His school ensembles received invitations to perform at the 2010
and 2013 Missouri Music Educators Association conventions, and his middle school ensemble
was featured on GIA’s DVD How to Make a Good Choir Sound Great! Dr. Williams has won numerous awards, including the 2009 Missouri Choral Directors
Association Prelude Award, an Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia
Honors College, the 2020-21 Rutgers Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations,
the Mason Gross Inclusive Community Faculty Award, and the 2021-22 Rutgers Presidential
Fellowship for Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. Williams earned degrees from Western Illinois University, the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, and Michigan State University. He also completed an Artist Teacher
Diploma from the Choral Music Experience–Institute for Choral Teacher Education. He
is the editor of Choral Reflections: Insights from American Choral Conductor-Teachers, and his writing appears in the Choral Journal, Music Educators Journal, and Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Dr. Williams is also the editor of The Brandon Williams Choral Series with Gentry Publications and a Tenor-Bass Choral Series with MusicSpoke. His choral
compositions and arrangements are published with Hal Leonard, Oxford University Press,
G. Schirmer, Mark Foster, Colla Voce, MusicSpoke, and Morningstar Publications. Dr.
Williams is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Collegiate
Choral Organization, Chorus America, and the American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers.
