Heidi Louise Williams, has appeared in solo and chamber music performances across the United States and in Europe, and has won numerous prizes including the La Gesse French-American Foundation Piano Fellowship, the St. Louis Artist Presentation Society Debut Recital Auditions, the W. Frederick Schaad Award at the Carmel National Chamber Music Competition, two Peabody Career Development Grants, the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards Competition, and the Peabody Sidney M. Friedberg Prize in Chamber Music. As a winner of Artists International’s Special Presentation Award, she was presented in her New York recital debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in 2004, receiving highest critical acclaim from the audience and the press. She recently returned to New York for a recital at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall in April 2006 as recipient of Artists International’s Outstanding Alumni Winners’ Award in Piano again receiving highest critical acclaim.

Her engagements have included concerto appearances with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, the Southern Illinois Symphony and the Oregon Sinfonietta, as well as professional solo and chamber music appearances at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, the French Embassy in Washington D.C., the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, and the Carmel Sunset Theater in California. As an active chamber musician, Dr. Williams has collaborated with many outstanding American and international artists including tenor Matthew Chellis, the Cavani Quartet, violist Miles Hoffman, violinist Bin Huang, violinist Qian Zhou, violinist Géza Kapás, violinist Michael Barta, and cellists Pei Lu and Dariusz Skoraczewski.

Dr. Williams is currently the newest member of the piano faculty at Florida State University. Prior to this, she served on the piano faculty at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music since 1999. She completed her Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied with renowned pianist Ann Schein and coached chamber music with Earl Carlyss, Samuel Sanders, Stephen Kates, and Robert McDonald.