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Donald Martino
Donald Martino
American composer
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Chris Brubeck
Chris Brubeck
American musician
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Dmitri Smirnov
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Isang Yun
Isang Yun
Korean composer
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Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher
American composer
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Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer
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Joan Tower
Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor
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Cal Tjader
Cal Tjader
American Latin jazz musician, recording artist
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
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William Alwyn
William Alwyn
English composer, conductor, and music teacher
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Jorge Peixinho
Jorge Peixinho
Portuguese musician
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Dean Drummond
Dean Drummond
American composer
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Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn
American composer
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Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Theo Loevendie
Theo Loevendie
Dutch composer
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Erwin Schulhoff
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist
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Herman David Koppel
Herman David Koppel
Danish musician
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage
English composer
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Ben Weber
Ben Weber
composer
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Toshi Ichiyanagi
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Japanese composer
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Don Banks
Don Banks
Australian composer
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Jörg Duda
Jörg Duda
German composer
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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Nigel Clarke
Nigel Clarke
British composer and musician
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas
Austrian composer
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Tristan Keuris
Tristan Keuris
Dutch composer
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Nicholas Maw
Nicholas Maw
British composer
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John Harbison
John Harbison
American composer
Bill Smith
jazz musician and composer from the United States

Bill Smith

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jazz musician and composer from the United States
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Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Rome Prize

William Overton Smith (September 22, 1926 – February 29, 2020) was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, Third Stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Smith frequently recorded jazz under the name Bill Smith, but his classical compositions are credited under the name William O. Smith.