William Trigg has been performing, composing, and conducting percussion music for over 40 years, and has premiered over 100 solo, chamber, and orchestral works.

William Trigg has been performing, composing, and conducting percussion music for over 40 years. He has premiered solo works by Babbitt, Bouchard, Dlugoszewski, Ichiyanagi​, Kupferman, Shapey, & Volans, and was solo marimbist in the New York City Ballet’s premiere production of Michael Torke’s “Echo.” He has performed and recorded with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Steve Reich & Musicians, the Philip Glass Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, the New Music Consort, Musicians’ Accord, Parnassus, Abandon, Newband, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, the NJ Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the American Composers Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Car Music Project, Ensemble Pi, the Glass Farm Ensemble and numerous others. Mr. Trigg has premiered over 100 solo, chamber, and orchestral works.

One of a handful of musicians to have performed with the companies of Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and Martha Graham, four of the pillars of modern dance, William Trigg is very active in composing and performing for modern dance. In addition to those four companies, Mr. Trigg has performed with Life Dance, the Wellspring Dance Project, Gathering Wood, and Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects. Mr. Trigg has composed works in collaboration with many modern choreographers, including Gloria McLean, Jody Oberfelder, Katherine Duke, Mariko Tanabe, and Alan Hineline.

William Trigg is also active as a conductor, composer and educator. Mr. Trigg conducted the ensemble for Lucy Shelton at Town Hall, NYC, in Ginastera’s “Cantata para America Magica”, and has conducted frequently for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company. He is currently the conductor & music director for The College of New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. His compositions have been performed by the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, the New Music Consort, Musicians’ Accord, LifeDance, the Wellspring Dance Project, the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, the Experimental

Percussion Orchestra, The College of NJ Percussion Ensemble, the Usdan Percussion Ensemble, and the Kingsborough Percussion Ensemble. William Trigg is on the faculty of The College of New Jersey.