Paul Williams is an English

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and

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

Biography

Paul Williams (aka Terry Day) studied at the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...

and

Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Jesus College was established in 1496 on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge, St ...

. While attending university, he teamed up with Roger Wornell, and under the pen names of Paul de Schroder and Lee Lenrow, they found a local rock and roll group called "The Phantoms", write songs for them, and arranged to be "discovered" by Pallette records. Their first record, "Phantom Guitar" and "Cachina" is now recognised as a classic of its genre. He has been composing since the age of eight and plays a variety of keyboard instruments. Williams has also worked as a session musician with numerous bands and orchestras, and has more recently worked with Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music fame. Williams also composes for major international publishing companies, including Carlin Music, Sound Stage, Parry Music and Zomba Production Music with over 1300 titles published. His compositions range from the horrifying, through the romantic, into high-tech. Paul has also worked at

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s 1 & 2 with many major production credits. Williams lives in

Cheam Cheam () is a suburb of London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is divided into North Cheam, Cheam Village and South Cheam. Cheam Village contains the listed buildings Lumley Chapel and the 16th-century Whitehall. It is adjacent to t ...

Major credits (film and television)

* '' "Crocodile" Dundee'' (1986) - love theme * Neighbours (Grundy TV Australia) - incidental music underscores * Father Christmas Letters - film score * Everybody Wins (Karel Reisz) - incidental music * A Country Practice (Australian TV) - incidental music * House of Gristle (BBC 1 TV Series) - theme and incidental music * Out of this World (BBC 1 TV Documentary) - theme & incidental music * Natural Neighbours (BBC 1 TV) - incidental music * My Good friend (Hartswood films) - incidental music * ‘Mysteries’ with Carol Vorderman BBC TV 1997 & 1998 - main theme & incidental music * Growing Places Series (BBC TV, 1998 — 26 parts) - main Theme & incidental music * ''Deep Impact'' (1998) - incidental music * Butterfly Legend 1999, Hollywood - songs & incidental music

Major credits (commercials)

* Brittany Ferries * Flash Cascade * Heineken * Hewlett-Packard * ICI * Lunn Poly * National Panasonic * Sony * SonyEricsson * Suchard * Tetley Tea * TSB * Uncle Ben's Rice

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Paul Living people English composers Alumni of the Royal College of Music Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Year of birth missing (living people)