William Trigg

Adjunct Instructor of Music (Percussion)

Email: trigg@tcnj.edu

Area Coordinator, Percussion
Director, Percussion Ensemble

M.M., Manhattan School of Music
B.M., Manhattan School of Music

Mr. Trigg is an Adjunct Instructor of Music and Area Coordinator of Percussion at The College of New Jersey where he teaches:

• MUS 123: Beginning Class Percussion
• MUS 146: Percussion Ensemble
• MUS 224: Intermediate Private Percussion Lessons
• MUS 324: Advanced Private Percussion Lessons
• MUS 424: Advanced Private Percussion Lessons

He is also currently on the faculty of Rowan University.

Mr. Trigg is well known as a specialist in 20th Century music.  He has premiered solo works by Babbitt, Bouchard, Dlugoszewski, Kyperman, and Shapey and was solo marimbist in the New York City Ballet’s premiere production of Michael Torke’s Echo. He is a member of the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, the New Music Consort, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Virtuosi, the PULSE Percussion Ensemble, and Musicians’ Accord.  He has performed and recorded with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Steve Reich & Musicians, the Philip Glass Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, Parnassus, Abandon, Newband, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, the Wellspring Dance Project, and numerous others.  In addition, Mr. Trigg has premiered over 100 solo, chamber, and orchestral works.

An active conductor and composer, Mr. Trigg conducted the ensemble for Lucy Shelton at Town Hall, NYC, in Ginastera’s Cantata para America Magica. He has conducted frequently for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company.  His compositions have been performed by the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, the New Music Consort, Musicians’ Accord, the Wellspring Dance Project, the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, the Experimental Percussion Orchestra, the Usdan Percussion Ensemble the Kingsborough Percussion Ensemble, and the TCNJ Percussion Ensemble.  Mr. Trigg has composed works in collaboration with many modern choreographers, including Gloria McLean, Jody Oberfelder-Riehm, Katherine Duke, Mariko Tanabe, and Alan Hineline.

Mr. Trigg studied with Fred D. Hinger and James Preiss at the Manhattan School of Music as well as Vic Firth at the Berkshire Music Center and Michael Bookspan and Alan Abel at the New York State School of Orchestra Studies.