ORCHESTRAL PREMIERES
“Composer Natalie Williams is sure to become a familiar name to audiences with her direct and refreshing
music, like the Fanfare, Sonic Boom.”
ASO programme notes, Symphony Under the Stars, Saturday Feb 16th 2002
“…featured young SA artists will be….composer Natalie Williams, whose spectacular fanfare Sonic Boom will open the program.”
Tim Lloyd, Advertiser, Friday Feb 15th 2002 (pg 32)
“The only female composer to feature in the Metropolis experience this year, Natalie Williams contributed Three Portraits of Scheherazade, a set of miniatures based on poems by Kate Middleton. Commissioned for this occasion, the score was the most traditional sounding of all the works performed, with a definite harmonic scheme, clear melodic sentences, some Oriental suggestiveness, and clear relevance to the inspirational texts. Speaking directly and showing every indication of a balanced, personal voice, these pieces made an agreeable impression on an audience by this stage attuned to more wrenching, confrontational matter.”
Clive O’Connell, The Age, Wednesday 25 May 2005 (Metro pg 9)
“Young South Australian composer Natalie Williams’s Sonic Boom, performed in March, plays on the idea of breaking the sound barrier and aims to showcase the orchestra as much as possible. It succeeds, by keeping form & ideas succinct while allowing for a sustained buildup of energy. After a single drumbeat and bristling brass chords and woodwind combine in a sweep of rising grandeur, all finished off by a spectacular, powder keg ending.”
Graham Strahle, The Australian, Monday July 3rd 2001 (pg 15)
“It was interesting to notice how the Festival Theatre audience took readily to Natalie Williams’ fanfare Sonic Boom….”
Graham Strahle, Adelaide Review, April 2001
“A major new choral work with a South Australian theme will be premiered under the stars – and inspiring circumstances – in the state’s Mid North this week. Towards Unlit Skies feature music by prominent young SA composer Natalie Williams and a libretto by well-known SA writer and composer Pat Rix.”
Louise Nunn, Advertiser, March 17 2003 (pg 70)
“….Successful was Natalie Williams’ Fanfare Sonic Boom, a smartly conceived concert opener that bristles……and surges along with a well-honed main theme of cinematic proportions. Williams…is a highly talented composer deserving of close attention.”
Graham Strahle, Adelaide Review, March 2002 (pg 25)
“Natalie Williams’ sparkling Fanfare Sonic Boom launched the evening on a high energy level.”
Stephen Whittington, Advertiser, February 18 th, 2002 (pg 69)
“In Sonic Boom, the first of a series of Fanfares by young Australian composers, Natalie Williams whipped up a celebratory storm, symbolically breaking the sound barrier between silence and music.”
Elisabeth Silsbury, Advertiser, Monday March 19th 2001 (pg 6)
CHAMBER MUSIC PREMIERES
“…[sop. Tessa Miller] revelled in the wistfully neo-romantic atmosphere of contemporary Australian composer Natalie Williams’ rather beautiful Perpetual Harmony…”
Rodney Smith, Advertiser, October 31st 2007
“…five quite substantial movements of Natalie Williams’ String Quartet no 1. The music’s central, lyrical slow movement made a distinct impression……”
Raymond Chapman-Smith, Advertiser, April 5th 2002 (pg 61)
“…the heart of the program [Bundaleer Forest Weekend Evening Concert] was truly ambitious, a commission from composer Natalie Williams for choir, soloists and orchestra, Towards Unlit Skies. This brought together the composer with librettist Pat Rix, poet Kim Mann and the local community in an exploration of the local environment and its history as changes were wrought upon by settlement and forestry. It was a thought-provoking work, with a rich tapestry of orchestral colour….”
Stephen Whittington, Advertiser, March 24th 2003
“…..in the expressive sweep of song cycles….Natalie Williams’ lovely, fragrant Dream Pedlary was sung with communicative relish by Keith Hempton.”
Graham Strahle, City messenger, June 21st 2001 (pg 9)
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