About
“That was one of the most queerly delicious things I’d heard in months. That sounded like what life is to me… They were talking. They were REALLY talking… I intend to hear that again.”
John McWhorter on “A Hydra’s Guide to Parenthood,” Relevant Tones Live
Will Rowe (b. 1992) is a composer from Oxford, Michigan. His works are receiving performances both in the U.S. and internationally by such ensembles as the Camerata Silesia Katowice, ensemble mise-en, and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra and by such soloists as Bixby Kennedy, Blair McMillen, and Eliot Heaton. He is a graduate from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music’s B.M and M.M. in Composition programs, and served as the Assistant Director of their New Music Ensemble during his time there. Will’s supplemental education experience includes participation in the Fontainebleau Ecole d’Art Américaines, and the Freie Universität Berlin im Sommer Composition Program.
Will is a proud titlist in the BMI Student Composer Awards, the Maurice Gardner Competition, and the League of Composers/ISCM Competition, and participant in festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days festival, the mise-en festival, and the Miami ISCM New Music Festival. He also frequents the artist colony scene as a resident of the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony and the UCross Foundation, and is recorded on Access Contemporary Music’s label.
Amidst composing, Will serves as the Co-Director of the American Composers Alliance in preserving historical works, coordinating new editions, and working with living composers on their publications. Additionally, he is the Co-Curator of the contemporary chamber music workshop series, Concept Lab, which he produces with Seth Boustead as a program of Access Contemporary Music. A labor of love, Concept Lab invites composers to write outside their comfort zone and learn from their risk-taking in a low-stakes, casual setting.
Will currently lives in New York City. In his free time, he enjoys following Red Wings hockey, perfecting his chocolate chip cookie recipe, and playing duplicate bridge (poorly).
