Tom Williams is an electroacoustic music composer and principal lecturer in Composition at Coventry University. In 2010 his acousmatic piece Can won the Italian music medal ‘Città di Udine’ and Shelter received a honourable mention at IMEB, Bourge, 2006. Collaborations include: the dancer Vida Midgelow on two video works Voice (a Retracing) and Home (a Replacing); New York cellist Madeleine Shapiro on Dart for cello and electronics (available on Albany Records, New York) – the piece was nominated for the British Composer Awards 2013; with the American soprano Juliana Janes Yaffé for the song cycle, Meditations on a Landscape; with Sarah Watts for Weighed Down by Light for contrabass clarinet (2017/18). Recent performances have included ICMC2016 Utrecht; NYCEMF2016/17; Diffrazioni Festival Florence; CMMR Sao Paulo; Sounds Agenda 2018 Sheffield; Sonorities, Queens University; Sound + Environment, Hull, and MUSLAB in Mexico.