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Todd Williams is an active freelance musician in the greater Philadelphia region.  A graduate of the Indiana University School of Music, he studied horn with Myron Bloom, Michael Hatfield, and Richard Seraphinoff.  While a student at Indiana, he was awarded the Willi Apel Early Music Scholarship and the Philip Farkas Memorial Scholarship (premier recipient).

He is comfortable performing a wide variety of musical styles on modern and period horns:   Performances with modern instrument ensembles include the 38^th Division Army Band, the Chamber Orchestra and Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Ballet Company, the symphony orchestras of Allentown, Reading, Pottstown, Lancaster, and Delaware (to name just a few), the Sarasota Opera Company (Florida) and Lyrique-en-Mer opera festival in France.

Performances with period-instrument ensembles include Apollo’s Fire, Tempesta di Mare, Opera Lafayette, Concert Royal, NYS Baroque, Arcadia Players, Philablaeser, Washington Bach Consort, Bach Collegium of Philadelphia, Dallas Bach Society, BEMF:  Boston Early Music Festival, BLEMF:  Bloomington Early Music Festival, and the Connecticut Early Music Festival.

In addition to regularly performing with classical ensembles, he is also seen performing Popular/Jazz engagements with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, Elvis Costello, Dave Brubeck, Frank Sinatra Jr., Anne Murray, Linda Ronstadt, The Irish Tenors, Anne Jillian, LeAnn Rimes, Clay Aiken, Il Divo, and many more.

Notable conductors under which he has performed include Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Gerard Schwartz, Julius Rudel, Gunther Schuller, Frederick Fennel, David Effron, Stanley Ritchie, James Richman, Ryan Brown, and J. Reilly Lewis to name a few.

He has been a recording artist for Telarc, Naxos, Chandos, New World Records, Lyrichord, Warner Brothers, NASCAR Images, Vanguard, and the Milken Foundation.

While maintaining a fulltime performing schedule, Mr. Williams is also Adjunct Professor of Horn at Kutztown University and Moravian College.

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