James Wilding

Praised by the Cape Times as ‘highly original,’ South African composer James Wilding’s work has been enthusiastically championed in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada, South Africa, and the USA, by such groups as the Stow Symphony Orchestra, the New York Middletown Wind Ensemble, the Harburger Orchester Akademie, the TEMPO ensemble, and the Chamber Music Society of Ohio. He has received commissions from Bayerischer Rundfunk, the South African Music Rights Organization, the Tuesday Musical Association, and the Orange County School of the Arts. His music has been prescribed for the UNISA-Transnet International Piano Competition and the Hennie Joubert Piano Competition, and he has won the Oude Meester Prize and Potchefstroom University’s Chancellor’s Trust Prize. Wilding is Professor of Instruction and Co-Chair in Composition and Theory at the University of Akron, and studied at the University of Cape Town and Kent State University.