MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

Angus King Williams is a 23-year-old composer, pianist, and music director born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his musical journey at five years old, studying classical piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music for ten years. His profound musicality underscored his undergraduate studies at Boston College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. At BC, he founded and served as the executive director of “Living In Color”, a multidisciplinary performance celebrating Black life and culture in the United States through poetry, music, dance, and film. This February, he performed in Lisa Langford’s “Sankofa: An Epic Adventure” at Playhouse Square. He also performed in and served as the assistant music director for the nation’s oldest Black-producing theatre, Karamu House, in Tazwell Thompson’s opera, “Jubilee”, based on the Fisk Jubilee Singers. He is a proud educator and teaching artist, as well as a freelance composer and music producer.