Selected Videos
Gluck - Melodie from Orfeo Viola & Piano, "dance of the blessed spirits"
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - Sonata Number 1 for Violin and Clavecin
Elena Kats Chernin - Naive Interlude
Beatrice Florence Price -
”Bright Eyes”
William Vyvyan Murray - Chō Chō Butterfly Duo
Inner Workings (2019) Installation by Silje Nes at BCmA, Berlin, July 2019.
Robert Schumann - Intermezzo from FAE
Ensemble Reflektor - Liebeslied (love song)
Projects
Ensemble Reflektor
Ensemble Reflektor is rapidly making a name for itself in Germany and beyond. Founded in 2015 by a group of young professionals looking to take orchestral playing to a new realm they are expanding the borders of the classical music world by performing in Clubs, Refugee Camps as well as inhabiting the traditional concert halls. They won the Max Brauer Prize in Hamburg in 2019 for their adventurous programming and exciting performances. William has been proud to count himself as one of them since the beginning of 2020.
Pynarello
Pynarello are a ‘rebel collective’ reshaping orchestral music in the Netherlands with their eclectic style. Dissatisfied with the status quo in classical music they explore a music making which is more adventurous, more direct, without sheet music and without conductors. While he lived in Amsterdam until the end of 2017 William felt lucky to be involved with the group and loves the way they expand classical music in new directions.
Silje Nes
Silje Nes produced a number of records released by Fat Cat records and performed throughout Europe, America, Africa and Asia. In the early 2010’s William performed throughout Europe with her in a trio performing works - many of which can be found here. These days she moves between Oslo and Berlin and in her current work explores the creation of environments that express a certain autonomy, removed from compositional processes.
Trojan Horns
During the reign of Polyester Records in Melbourne, the Trojan Horns were to be found most weekends leading the hottest dances of disaffected sorts through the city’s underworld. Regular residents at the Nightcat and The Evelyn, for almost a decade the Trojan Horns played the city’s seedier venues as well as festivals up and down the East Coast of Australia. William played a Fender Rhodes Mark II stage piano and a Hammond organ in the band.
Viola Quartet Arrangements
This project began as a Christmas present for Nobuko Imai in 2017. William arranged some of his favourite works of Mompou for three violas. Nobuko loved them and asked for more, but for a quarter. She then took and performed in Singapore and Japan in 2018. The project is heading towards an album worth of material to be recorded in 2021.
Composition & Arrrangements
William began composing in primary school at the piano, and during his teenage years churned works out for Esther and the Goye Boyz, the Trojan Horns, Loose Fit and the Bradbeer Quartet. His compositional output slowed during his performance studies in Berlin, Paris and Cremona but reignited when he moved to Amsterdam.
As a 75th birthday present for Nobuko Imai he arranged a number of Federico Mompou’s solo piano works for 4 violas. She then performed these works around the world. He has received a number of commissions for solo and chamber music works.
He has made string arrangements for a number of rock, jazz and hip hop producers and is working towards the release of an album of his own compositions in 2022.
Holon Trio’s - Mirrors arranged for Orchestra by William Vyvyan Murray, Federico Kurtz and Lukas Akintaya
Excerpt from William Vyvyan Murray’s Butterfly Duos
Performance of Amos Roach/William Vyvyan Murray’s Balliyang:Flying-Fox:Bat
Performance of William Vyvyan Murray’s - Punicum Granatum by Neasa Ni Bhriain and WVM