Music Belongs to Everyone
"Access to music is not a luxury. It is one of the most direct paths we have to a richer, more connected life - and making that path wider drives me every day."
Why This Matters Most
Of all my work - teaching, performing, researching, composing - arts leadership is where I believe I can make the greatest difference.
Not because teaching and performing are not central to who I am. But because leadership is where these multiply. A great arts leader builds the conditions in which thousands of people - students, families, communities - encounter music, perhaps for the first time, and find that it has something to offer them.
"I want more than to build an audience around classical music. I want to build communities where music in all its forms is part of how people understand themselves and each other."
A Personal Mission Statement
“Music has the power to bring people together across differences, to make relationships deeper, and to give individuals a language for experiences they couldn’t otherwise express. My work as an arts leader is to remove the barriers that keep people from discovering that - and to build programs, partnerships, and spaces where music can do what it does best.
This means working in schools and community centers as readily as concert halls. It means designing programs that begin with the community’s needs, not the institution’s calendar. It means leading teams with the same collaborative spirit I bring to the studio - because the best arts organizations, like the best ensembles, help everyone in them thrive.”
What I Believe About Arts Leadership
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Access Is the Work
Every program, partnership, and performance I lead is evaluated against one question: does this make music more available to people who need it? If not, we redesign.
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Center the Community
The most effective arts organizations I have been part of listen before they program. The community shapes the institution’s work.
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Empower those around you
Leadership is not a solo endeavor. I advocate for the musicians and educators I work with, because when they can bring their best, all will benefit.
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Music and life are inseparable
Building community and long-term partnerships stems from the belief that music is a life practice - it nurtures and renews, sharpens our senses, enables connection, and deepens joy.
The Work in Practice
Multiverse Concert Series, Director of Education · Featured Pianist · Greater Boston Area
The Multiverse Concert Series sits at the intersection of music and science, designing immersive, interdisciplinary programs that reach audiences, especially K-12 students, who rarely see themselves reflected in a traditional concert hall experience. As Director of Education, I develop music and science curricula, lead community engagement strategy, and perform as a featured pianist in venues chosen specifically for community accessibility and engagement.
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Education & Community Engagement Coordinator
At the Boston Philharmonic, I built and led a team of teaching and performance fellows drawn from universities across the region - managing hiring, delegating responsibilities across short and long-term goals, providing programming oversight and forging working relationships with school teachers and community leaders. I also managed budgets, wrote grant applications and produced reports for organizational leadership and public audiences.
I valued my team and our shared mission of inspiring the next generation and presenting classical music in a fun and digestible way, like our “Beginner’s Guide” series that we produced and distributed to students at each concert. I also felt honored to be tasked with cultivating BPO’s community engagement initiatives in the aftermath of COVID,
Harrisburg Symphony & Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Community Engagement & Event Leadership
During my undergraduate years, community engagement work with the Harrisburg Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic gave me a ground-level understanding of how arts organizations interact with K-12 school systems, municipal arts communities, and public audiences. Planning events, building relationships with community leadership, and learning how large organizations operate shaped my thinking about what more agile, community-centered arts leadership can look like.
Advocating for philanthropic giving to support the arts…
William is speaking for the Multiverse Concert Series at one of its unique venues - the EcoTarium in Worcester, MA.
Leadership Skills
Built across a decade of practice in institutional, community, and entrepreneurial arts settings.
Program design & curriculum development · Team building and mentorship · Community engagement strategy
Grant writing & reporting · Budget creation & management · K-12 arts education · Interdisciplinary programming
Event planning & logistics · Institutional partnership · Public speaking & advocacy · Music arranging & commissioning
Arts Leadership (Eastman Certificate) · Arts Management (BU Certificate)
How Arts Access Helped Me
"I grew up moving - new cities, new schools, new teachers, new communities. Through music, I could experience the joy of connecting with others and caring about them. Music helped me feel like part of my community and that I could make an impact, even before I had the words to understand my place.
I have never forgotten what it felt like to be the new person in the room who found their footing through music. That is the experience I want to make available to as many people as possible. Not as a product. Not as a performance. As a genuine invitation to something that can help them feel more at home and thriving.
Arts leadership, for me, is the work of building those invitations at scale."
Bringing science and music to our community.
Our “Science and Sound Stories” event through the Multiverse Concert Series helps students engage with science topics like photosynthesis and coral reefs through a storybook reading and live music, with play along activities!
“The musical community I want to help build is one where belonging is the starting point - not something you have to earn.
That means programming that reflects the full range of who lives in a community. It means organizations that are led as collaboratively as they perform. It means measuring success not only in tickets sold or grants received, but in relationships formed, barriers removed, and lives genuinely touched by music.
If that vision resonates with you - as a collaborator, a community partner, a sponsor, or simply someone who believes in what music can do - I would love to hear from you.”
Let’s build something together
Inquires welcome from organizations, collaborators, and community partners.