Pianist/Composer
(The below text comes from William Ögmundson).
William Ögmundson is an award-winning composer and lyricist, and a classically trained solo pianist. He has 12 albums to his credit and his recordings have over 40 million streams worldwide.
William began performing at the age of 5, and went on to win numerous piano competitions. He was selected to be the featured pianist for the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra on four separate occasions. William has performed at venues throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East including the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, where he was honored to have been the organist for a Sunday morning Mass.
As an award-winning composer and lyricist, William has written numerous musical scores for the stage as well as for television. William co-wrote a lullaby with Tomie dePaola for his beloved children's story character, Strega Nona, which appears in the book The Magic of Strega Nona. “Pollyanna,” a musical that he wrote with Trish Lindberg was published in 2011 by Dramatic Publishing. He co-wrote (with Tom Dunn of Alchemist's Workshop), “Georgia O'Keeffe Paints Paradise,” for which he won Best Musical Score in the New York Theater Festival, was performed at the Hudson Guild Theater in 2019 in NYC.
His solo piano album “Simple Gifts” garnered many positive reviews, was nominated by Piano Whisperings Solo Piano Radio for Album of the Year, and was no. 2 in the November 2018 chart for Enlightened Piano Radio. In the words of Steve Sheppard of One World Music “...his style, and it has to be said, is utter genius here, was beyond anything I had heard for quite some time...masterfully performed and produced, a real winner of an album.” In her review for mainlypiano.com, Kathy Parsons said “The music is melodic, very expressive and beautifully played.”
He has recently created (with Swedish composer and producer Rikard Mathisson) a moniker called “In Void” where the two of them collaborate on music about art, under the pseudonyms “Renault and Peugeot.” Those enigmatic releases can be found on any streaming platform.
William resides in New Hampshire with his wife, Heather, and three children, where he is music director of Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, and the collaborative pianist at the Upper Valley Music Center.
To learn more about William and discover his music, visit his website at http://www.williamogmundson.com.