Meet Your Instructor
Dr. Andrew “Cody” Williams brings years of experience as a professional bassist and educator. His background includes leading the Bass and Cello Conservatory of Dallas, teaching at both the University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University, directing and teaching at various summer music camps, and guest teaching as far as the Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador.
His students have performed in professional orchestras across Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and have also seen acceptance and scholarship into prestigious music schools across the country. These students now educate their own bass players throughout the United States.
From West Columbia, Cody attended White Knoll High School before attending the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville. After his time in Texas, he has returned to the Midlands and is eager to serve his home.
Professional Performer
Cody Williams currently performs with the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestras of Aiken, Charleston, Charlotte, Long Bay, North Carolina, Winston-Salem, the South Carolina Ballet, and the Palmetto Concert Band.
While based in Texas, he performed with the orchestras of Abilene, Fort Worth, Texarkana, Garland-Las Colinas-Arlington, Richardson, Wichita Falls, Shreveport, Arkansas, the Denton Bach Society, and more.
Mr. Williams has participated in dozens of recitals, performing solo and chamber works with various instrumentalists and vocalists. He has performed solos accompanied by orchestra and has even appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
Additional Activities
Cody has earned the Artist Award at the H.E.A.R.T. Awards presented by the Greater Denton Arts Council, 1st Prize in both the Music of America division of the Great Composers Competiton and the Golden Classical Music Awards, and is a winner of the University of North Texas Concerto Competition.
His published works include “Popular Orchestral Excerpt Etudes For Double Bass,” a collection of nine etudes over two books and 160 pages derived from double bass standard orchestral repertoire in collaboration with Jeff Bradetich. His most recent research, “Making Cents: Intonation Considerations Applied to the Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1905) by Serge Koussevitzky” explores and overcomes double bass specific challenges to intonation all in one source. He has commissioned and performed double bass works in addition to performing his own compositions.
Cody’s proudest achievement is the family he has built with his wife Regem, and baby Alivia. In his free time, he enjoys their membership at Riverbanks Zoo, walks at local parks and ponds, and participating in swim lessons. He commissioned his bass from Rumano Solano in 2017. It is modeled after Giovanni Battista Rogeri’s 1690s Italian double basses, some of the earliest ever created.
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