Direct Composition

William Camilleri was born in London, England and took to the piano, drums, violin and recorder at age 3. At 17 William moved to Toronto, Canada and was told by Paul Robson the Director of The Ontario College of Percussion that he could easily become the worlds greatest drummer, Paul suggested he take Private Tuition and William was taken by world famous American drummer Peter Magadini who was in Toronto at the time. William then moved to London and played with many world famous artists ,namely Tina Turner on her hit single Lets Stay Together.

William then found he couldn't fit in with traditional music groups and set up his own Revival Studios where he composed his own special brand of music. Soon after he was discovered by Prof Pirkilbauer from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria where he was commissioned to compose and record his first CD. A year later William was discovered again by Prof. Dr. Steven Paul the Head of A&R at Sony Classical in New York who described Williams compositions as monumental.Prof. Steven Paul then put William in touch with the Head of Time Warner in New York who graded his music as something astonishing calling William a musical phenomenon.

Prof.Dr. Steven Paul also put William in contact with Martin Harry also Head of A&R at Sony Classical who described his piano music as a very unique type of music that he had never heard before. After this meeting William was discovered in Hollywood by Claire Best at Sandra Marsh Management in Beverly Hills, a leading Hollywood Film company who makes huge Hollywood Blockbusters. Sandra Marsh Management said his music was the best they had ever heard and rated William alongside John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, James Horner.( of Titanic Fame) Sandra Marsh Management signed him as a Composer on the strength of a CD composed, arranged and recorded by William on a synthesizer. At that time this leading Hollywood company decided to open a music department to take William on.

William was then put in direct contact with Dreamworks, Lionsgate Films, Universal and most of the top Hollywood Film Companies and nominated as the Composer for The Painted Veil, and numerous other films, including movies by Dino di Laurentis and other world famous Directors and producerss.

William then put his own website together www.filmworks-online.com and invested heavily in State of the Art recording Studios where he can compose all styles of extremely high quality music ranging form simple samples to a full blown Orchestra. William has worked with many leading Orchestras and was commissioned to compose a large Orchestral work which has attracted the attention of the Heads of numerous record companies such as Warner Music, Sony Classical, Naxos of America and many more.

William was then contacted by Film Director James Hughes of Amber Films and the world famous FX Company in Los Angeles Barbed Wire to compose the Film Score for The Velvet Abstract due for release in 2012. After this William was contacted by Prof. Erik Gregory, the Consultant to Harvard and New England
Conservatoy to lecture on Film music to aspiring Composers and Film Makers.

William has composed over 40 CDs of music, is highly gifted as he can compose all his music with ease and without any changes. William calls this DIRECT COMPOSITION even when William performs in concert he relies on sheer inspiration and delivers the most powerful melodic music that can be heard today.

In August 2010, William was contacted by The Mercedes Benz Fashion fashion show. Maria McDonald the head of New York Fashion week to submit 8 music videos for the red carpet event in New York, in Manhattan. He was also asked to perform live in concert at the prestigious Lincoln Centre in New York. Recently, two major record labels one from the US and one from Europe have approached William who will be making a 5 CD release in 2011.

In February 2011 William Camilleri was asked to perform at the Hot Couture Fashion week in Concert in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria and had his music performed there in this worldwide Red Carpet Event broadcast all over the USA and to 18 different countries.

Also in February 2011 William Camilleri was asked by Linzy Attenborough to be Head of Music for First Impression Films Ltd, a new large Film/Multimedia Company in London and also, the Head of Music at Thought Juice Films, another Film Company that specializes in High Level Music Videos and all aspects of the Film/Music/Recording Industry.

William then submitted his true life story called The Composer to the New York Film festival who contacted William telling him he has an amazing Oscar winning story, William was told to copyright this story with the Writers Guild of America and his Attorney which he did. The response to this groundbreaking story was so amazing that William has now decided to make it into a Hollywood Feature Film, as this is going to be a huge box office hit. Producers and Film Directors from all over the world have told him this.

The Composer is a cross between Good Will Hunting, Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind and Forrest Gump but this is a true story that has never been done in the history of Hollywood.Evey project William has been involved in has been a tremendous success and various websites publish glowing reviews of Williams music as changing the course of music as we know it.