“Mr. Banfield’s work (Piano Concerto) posed an interesting experiment in perception: the opening bars had harmonization that could be heard as typically jazz or as Bartok-ian. The question was resolved with a combination of gracefulness and muscularity by Leon Bates”.
- New York Times

Dr. Bill Banfield is a composer, ethnomusicologist, educator and writer. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed prodigiously to the music landscape creating a body of work that authentically embraces diverse styles of contemporary American music including, opera, jazz, blues, symphony and chamber works. Having served twice as a Pulitzer Prize judge in American music (2010/2016), Banfield is an award winning composer whose symphonies (13), operas (8), chamber works have been performed and recorded by major symphonies across the country including; the National, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Dallas, Indianapolis Akron, Detroit, San Fransisco, New York Virtuoso, Grand Rapids, Akron, Richmond, Toledo, Savannah, Chicago Symphonia, Sphinx, Sacramento, San Diego symphonies and the Havana Camerata of Cuba. In 2012, his symphony 10 was commissioned, premiered by the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center with Sweet Honey in the Rock, and his symphony 11 was performed, recorded in Switzerland with the Evoca/ECJ symphony and chorus.

For more of Dr. Banfield’s works, visit billbanfieldmusic.com.