Pianist • Composer • Arranger
William Schwartzman is a jazz performance major at The Juilliard School and a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Having studied under pianists Ted Rosenthal, Taylor Eigsti and the late Mike Lang, William has had the privilege of performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Inspired by a wide range of pianists from Art Tatum to Brad Mehldau, William’s study of jazz music has earned him early success, with multiple DownBeat Student Music Awards, the Grand Prize Winner in the Music Center’s Spotlight competition, and member of Gerald Clayton’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra and Sean Jones’s NYO (National Youth Orchestra) Jazz ensemble. William has shared the stage with renowned jazz musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Patrick Bartley. He hopes to use music to share his dreams for how our world could be.
