Born and raised outside Boston, 21-year-old composer and pianist William Zuckerman started his musical training on electric bass, taking lessons from a teacher in his hometown of Franklin, MA. In 2007, former US Presidential candidate John Kerry wrote a letter to William Zuckerman honoring his musical accomplishments in high school. In the three years since the letter was stamped, William’s music has been performed extensively throughout America; in 2009-2010 alone, cities and venues as diverse as Boston, New York City, the Aspen Music Festival, the June In Buffalo Festival for 21st Century Music, Philadelphia, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, the Tribeca New Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival held performances of his music. He has been featured and profiled on college radio stations, the blogosphere, and in national press.

A recent award from the New York Art Ensemble in 2009 garnered him critical acclaim for his work, resulting in an international television profile about the composer. Also in 2009, William was commissioned to score a documentary motion picture, and in 2010, William was commissioned by the American Guild of Organists to write music for a concert of solely 20th and 21st century American organ repertoire. He is a member of the band Existential Pilot, a non-profit ensemble that has already toured throughout the Midwest and East Coast. The shows with Existential Pilot have gained significant attention in several online publications.

He is founder of the recently enacted Epicycle Records, a label and blog run by young artists William Zuckerman, Robert Alexander, and Preben Antonsen, intent with a vision of an independent sound with classical and electronic inclinations. A single of his for piano solo, entitled Act of Contrition, as well as singles by fellow Epicycle artists, will be released on iTunes and every other major online digital music store in July and August 2010. In summer 2011, his album Music In Pluralism will be released.

William will graduate in 2011 with a degree in Music Composition from the University of Michigan, where he studies with Bright Sheng and Michael Daugherty. For more information, including links to streaming audio and press about William Zuckerman, please visit his website at www.williamzuckerman.net.