Golden Williams Duo

The Golden Williams Duo uses music and the arts as a mirror to reflect on and dialogue with the world around us, by creating and performing thought-provoking music relevant to our own time. Our viola and cello ensemble is committed to collaborations with living composers and has premiered works by Anthony R. Green, David Bertrand, Clarissa Baquiran, David Wolfson, Leonor Falcon, and Michael Kosch. In February of 2025, The Golden Williams Duo hosted a “Golden Williams Duo and Friends” performance for four violas and four cellos, after receiving full grant funding from the Music Performance Trust Fund, administered by Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. The concert featured the works of Dorothy Rudd Moore, Anthony R. Green, Florence Price, Julius Eastman, Julia Perry, Sydney Guillaume, Quinn Mason, and Sakari Dixon.

The Golden Williams Duo first performed together in 2017 at the Custer Institute and Observatory in Southold, NY, as members of The Red Door Chamber Players. More recently, the Golden Williams Duo has performed at Spectrum Music, Symphony Space’s Bar Thalia, Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church, Regalia Roasting Collective, Willets Road School, Zion Lutheran Church (Pittsfield, MA), Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Metropolitan Playhouse, Castle Village, the Music Conservatory of Westchester, the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, Sumner and Hotchkiss Halls (Chestertown, MD), Mountain Springs Music Festival (Draper, Utah), and at the Bi-Annual Conference of the American Viola Society held at The Colburn School (Los Angeles, CA).