Lenny Williams, Composer |
Lenny Williams is an accomplished musician and composer who has composed original music for more than 500 documentary films, winning Emmy Awards in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005 for Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound. Since 1995 he has worked extensively with National Geographic Television and Film, the Discovery Channel, Court TV, WNET, CNN, TLC, PBS, Animal Planet, and others. He has also won four BMI awards and contributed music to two Grammy-award winning recordings.
Williams graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1983 with a degree in music composition. After school, he worked in the Washington, DC, area as a jazz pianist and accompanist. He eventually became a regular performer at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, playing with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and for productions of nationally touring musicals.
From 1993 to the present he has been a full-time pianist with the Capitol Steps political satire group, performing nearly a thousand shows throughout the United States. From 1988 to 1996 he was the pianist for the late Eva Cassidy, whose posthumous recordings have sold more than five million copies world wide. As a member of the Eva Cassidy Band, he has been awarded Gold and Platinum records in many countries including the UK, United States, and Australia.
Williams has performed with many other notable musicians, including Smokey Robinson, Anita Baker, Paul Shaffer and the Late Night Band, Gloria Estefan, ‘N Sync, Cy Coleman, Stephanie Mills, and Chuck Brown.
