Paul Williams Composer

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Paul Williams at his grand piano.

Paul Williams is one of the UK’s most skilled and versatile melodic composers of instrumentals and songs, with a wealth of experience in many commercial genres. He has a great knowledge of harmony and melody, writing music suitable to a wide range of media.

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Nature Textures Romance

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Minimal Piano

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Gypsy Jazz

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Sentimental Lovesongs

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The Wasted Lands

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Headline News

Biography

Paul Williams trained at the Royal College of Music and at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He has published over 3000 works, often working to tight budgets.

Paul is an accomplished jazz and big band pianist, playing regularly with top session musicians. He records at his state-of-the-art studio in Cheam, Surrey, UK.

Much of Paul's music is Production/Library based and can be found in the catalogues of Universal Production Music (UPPM), Warner Chappell, APM, Soho Production Music, Amphonic, Gung Ho, Squirky and BMG/Vibrant, sometimes writing under pen names Terry Day and Jason Mason. In 2016 he won Best Wildcard Library track at the Library Music Awards and has also won a Buma/Stemra award.

Demis Roussos recorded and released Paul's Emotions and Memories and Song Without End. Paul's Grosvenor House features in the film ‘Deep Impact’ along with many other film placements.

 

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in BBC studio with Producer Paul Williams

Paul also worked at BBC radio as Executive Producer and was involved with producing Sony Award winning musical documentaries with John Lennon, Elton John, and Paul McCartney. He has produced BBC tracks by Led Zeppelin and David Bowie.

As a member of the band Nowomowa, Paul composed and recorded with Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music on the seminal album The Wasted Lands.

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Music for Advertising and Production

Paul’s compositions in current advertising and commercials include Doritos Crisps (Fuego de passion, Soho Production Music, 2016), Dalani Home Living (Flipper Music), and Lil Pepsi Have Some Fun This Halloween.

Paul Williams’ production music credits include 18 albums for Universal Production Music and Warner Chappell Music, such as The Piano Sessions, and albums for Vibrant Music and Soho Production Music, including Essential Songbook 1, Song Jukebox and Gypsy Jazz. He won the 2014 Library Music Awards’ Best Library Track for Black Treacle, published by Squirky Music Publishing, for whom Paul has written over 180 tracks, some in collaboration with Chris Bemand, owner of Squirky Music and Paul's co-writer for Black Treacle.

Paul also writes for BMG Parry Music Library whose YouTube channel has over 360,000 plays, including tracks from Paul's Aquarius album and Wistful Dreams, written and produced by Paul when he was only in his 20s.

Doritos ‘For the Bold’

Dalani ‘Love Your Home’

Pepsi ‘Little Pepsis’

Music for Film and TV

Paul’s music is featured in a host of Hollywood movies including Deep Impact, Crocodile Dundee and Wedding Date as well as major international commercials and extensively on BBC2 TV.

Paul's TV credits include successful series Mom, Bull, Glee and Hawaiian tracks for numerous SpongeBob SquarePants episodes.


Deep Impact, starring Téa Leoni

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Samantha’s Theme

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Harmonium music

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Grosvenor House (instrumental)

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That Summertime (writing as Terry Day)

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Wonderful Christmastime

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Grosvenor House (instrumental)

Paul Williams writing as Terry Day

Jazzy Love Songs by Paul Williams

That Summertime when we were young… sung by Tina May

Starlight Club sung by Tina May

My Valentine a dreamy love song sung by Lance Ellington

Love Dance jazz combo in wonderland, sung by Tina May

C’est Ma Chanson d'Amour Classic French love song, sung by Joan Viskant

Listen to more of Paul’s multi-genre music over on Soundcloud:

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Paul Williams
writes music for

Soho Production Music, Warner Chappell Music, CPM (formerly Carlin Recorded Music Library), Universal Publishing Production Music, Vibrant Music with BMG Production Music, as well as Amphonic Music and Gung Ho Music.

His pseudonymous writing names and co-writing partners include Adja Bandjani, John Burns, Terry Day, Andy Grossart and Matthew Wildman.

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