Gareth Williams is a composer and songwriter and is Chancellor's Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art. His compositions seek to find new relationships, participants, collaborators and audiences for new opera, music theatre, and song, to shed light on stories and communities that have been overlooked, and to explore ideas of vulnerability in vocal writing. He creates award winning music for companies and organisations such as Scottish Opera, Tapestry Opera, National Theatre of Scotland, Red Note Ensemble, Hebrides Ensemble, Bridge Theatre, Ulster Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Chamber Music Scotland. From 2015 - 2018 Williams collaborated with playwright Oliver Emanuel to create The 306 Trilogy. The pair again collaborated on their musical A History of Paper.