Joseph Williams is a pianist, educator, film producer and curator from Tacoma, WA.

Memorable performance venues include The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Northwest African American Museum and Dubai's Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children. Upcoming engagements include performances at Fort Worth Opera and Steinway Hall (NYC).

He is founder and director of Tukwila Kids Make Music, a free music instruction program offering piano and violin classes to underserved children (K-5).

He is an advisory board member for New Music Initiative for Black Voices, a nationwide invitational that aims to celebrate and empower Black composers and their music. He also serves on MTNA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.

Curations include Black Splendor, a free ten-episode virtual series highlighting Black musicians and composers residing in the Pacific Northwest.

He is Curator of Art and Music at Lakewold Gardens.

Music from Home: Unknown, a chamber music house concert & premiere

Sunday, December 3, 2023 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood, WA, United States

$35 ($28 student/senior/military, $17.50 ages 6-17; ages 5 & under free)

Seattle Opera: From His Heart's Deep Core – Ellaina Lewis & Martin Bakari in Recital

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Tagney Jones Hall at the Opera Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Richard Thompson — Selected works

$45 ($40 subscriber)

Voices of Diversity: A Celebration of Classical Music's Underrepresented Composers

Friday, February 24, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Chapel of St. Ignatius (Seattle University), Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Florence Price — Selected works
Irene Britton Smith — Selected works
Adrian Gordon — Selected works
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges — Selected works
Immanuel T. Abraham — Selected works
Tomoko Omura — Selected works

Free

Music From Home: A House Concert Series – Armenian Music

Sunday, July 3, 2022 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood, WA, United States

On July 3rd, Gayane Grigoryan and Joe Williams will be performing a program of traditional and electrifying contemporary Armenian music.&nb…

$35 ($28 student/military/senior, $17.50 ages 10-17; ages 9 & under free)

Music From Home: A House Concert Series – Inner Songs

Sunday, June 5, 2022 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood, WA, United States
Florence PriceThe Poet and his Song
Richard ThompsonThe Shadow of Dawn ("I. Dawn" & "IV. One Life")
Richard ThompsonPrelude No. 5
Richard ThompsonSongs of Passion ("II. Strangers", "V. Silence", "I. Passion", "III. Bliss", "V. Life's Full Promise")
Richard ThompsonPrelude No. 2
Traditional — Selected works (selected spirituals)
William Grant Still"‘Tis Sunset in the Garden" from Troubled Island

$35 ($28 student/military/senior, $17.50 ages 10-17; ages 9 & under free)

Byron Schenkman & Friends: Schumann Fairy Tales & Fantasies

Sunday, April 24, 2022 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Robert Schumann – Bilder aus Osten ("Pictures from the East"), Op. 66 (for piano 4 hands)
Marie Elisabeth von Saxe-Meiningen – Romanze in F major for clarinet & piano
Robert Schumann – Drei Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 for clarinet & piano
Robert Schumann – Märchenerzählungen ("Fairy Tale Narrations"), Op. 132 for clarinet, viola, & piano
Max Bruch – Rumänische Melodie ("Romanian Melody"), Op. 83, No. 5 for clarinet, viola, & piano
Max Bruch – Nachtgesang ("Song of the Night"), Op. 83, No. 6 for clarinet, viola, & piano

Ticket price $48 $43 Senior

Lakewold Gardens: Fall Soirée

Sunday, September 26, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood, WA, United States
Piano playing from Joseph Williams; poetry from Michael Haeflinger & Write253 youth poets; great wine; & an auction on artwork by local artists, to benefit Lakewold Gardens.

$125

Epiphany Seattle: Joseph Williams, piano [LIVE]

Sunday, May 23, 2021 @ 9:15pm – 10:15pm (EDT)
Online event
Tacoma-based pianist Joseph Williams closes out the Epiphany 2020-2021 season with a recital on their 1901 Hamburg Steinway in their historic Chapel.

Free (Free)

Dr. Quinton Morris & Joseph Williams benefit concert for Key to Change

Saturday, January 25, 2020 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, Renton, WA, United States
Wide-ranging music by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and William Grant Still.

$15 (students $5)

ARTS at Seattle U: Joseph Williams, piano

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Seattle University - Pigott Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
A special piece of music for solo piano that breaks into brief, wistful dance phrases; best characterized as containing only the barest indication of a pulse.

$12 / $8 / $5