Percussionist William Winant has been the avant-elite’s go-to percussionist for more than 35 years.

SPIN MAGAZINE

2014 Grammy nominated percussionist has performed with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time, including John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, John Zorn, Keith Jarrett, Anthony Braxton, James Tenney, Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Reich and Musicians, Yo-Yo Ma, Frederic Rzewski, Ursula Oppens, Joan LaBarbara, Annea Lockwood, Joelle Leandre, Zeena Parkins, Danny Elfman/OingoBoingo, Mr. Bungle, Sonic Youth, and the Kronos String Quartet.

RELEASES

The Basketweave Elegies
Peter Garland
Cold Blue CB0066
Release date: 2023

Halcyon Days
Michael Byron
Cold Blue CB0065
Release date: 2023

Vernal Equinox
JON HASSELL
Remastered release: 2020

Moments
MICHAEL VINCENT WALLER
Released: 03 Oct 2019

Bells for the South Side
ROSCOE MITCHELL
Released: 6 June 2019

Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra
Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College
Released: 29 March 2019

Moon Viewing Music
(Inscrutable Stillness Studies #1)
PETER GARLAND
Cold Blue CB0052 Released: 2018

Zones of Influence
DAVID ROSENBOOM / WILLIAM WINANT
Pogus 21074-2 Released: Jun 20 2014

Fragmentaions, Prayers and Interjections
JOHN ZORN
Tzadik Cat. # 8315 Released: March 2014

Five American Percussion Pieces
Poon Village ‎– PV 007 LP
Released: 29 Oct 2013

The 10,0000 Things
Microfest Records B00FG833DM
Released: October 30 2013

Eclipse Quartet with William Winant
New World Records B00CDVSXL2
Released: June 4 2013

Encounters at the End of the World
Fractal Music 2013A
Released: Oct 01 2013

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PRESS & TESTIMONIALS

  • "Winant is a dazzling virtuoso but also a catalytic presence in adventurous music, a percussive dynamo generating rhythms, colours and textures that blaze life into visionary scores."

    WIRE MAGAZINE / Julien Cowley

  • “... one of the most wide-ranging musicians in North America… making a cumulative point about open-field maverick tendencies in the music of this country, whether it involves notes-on-paper composers, noise generators, rock improvisers, jazz-tradition players or whatever.”

    THE NEW YORK TIMES / Ben Ratliff

  • "William Winant is simply the best percussionist working today... whichever piece it is, he's not afraid to make it come alive."

    KIM GORDON / Artist

  • "William Winant always plays his ass off!"

    John Zorn

  • Willie Winant is a musical hurricane. A unique force of nature that we may only have the chance to experience once in our lifetime, and one that will inspire us forever.”

    Mike Patton

  • Willie is very much responsible for my life-long infatuation with percussion and remains to this day a true inspiration to me.

    Danny Elfman

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Full Review of Five Percussion Pieces in THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Full Review of Five Percussion Pieces in SPIN.