Bill’s compositions have roots in minimalism, jazz, and popular music. Energetic, evocative, and deeply personal, his music has been described as “constantly threatening to burst at the seams, were those seams not so artfully structured...rarely has music this earthy been so elegant” (Gramophone). His work has been performed at venues across the country, including le Poisson Rouge, Galapagos, Symphony Space, and Lincoln Center in New York; the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta; the Atlas in Washington, D.C.; Constellation in Chicago; MOCAD and the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit; Intiman Theatre in Seattle; and the Hobby Center in Houston. Internationally, his music has been performed throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. His work has received support and recognition from Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and New Music USA.

Beyond the concert stage, Bill’s music is regularly used by choreographers and dance companies throughout the country. Most recently, he composed the music for Utopia: A Music and Dance Ambient Experience, a concert-length collaboration with choreographer Hannah Seidel and Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. The project followed two evening-length collaborations with acclaimed Houston choreographer Karen Stokes, DEEP: Seaspace and The Secondary Colors.

In 2004, Bill formed his own ensemble, Billband, dedicated to performing his compositions. Featuring leading performers from the contemporary music community, the group released two critically acclaimed recordings on the Innova label. Its 2013 release, Towards Daybreak, was featured by NPR, The Huffington Post, and iTunes Classical.

A central part of Bill’s career has been creating opportunities for new music and the musicians who perform it. As a concert producer, he has presented 82 events through his Open Ears and Free Play concert series, earning national recognition with three ASCAP/Chamber Music America Awards for Adventurous Programming. Guests have included eighth blackbird, PRISM Quartet, Sō Percussion, ETHEL, Latitude 49, Michael Lowenstern, Ashley Bathgate, and the Akropolis Reed Quintet.

Through contemporary music ensembles he established at Suffolk County Community College in New York and Grand Valley State University in Michigan, he has commissioned and premiered 109 compositions by composers including Sarah Kirkland Snider, Marc Mellits, David Lang, Anna Clyne, Zoë Keating, Rachel Grimes, Nico Muhly, and Shara Nova.

In 2006, Bill founded the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, which under his direction has earned national recognition for its performances, commissions, recordings, and innovative projects. The ensemble has been profiled in Newsweek, The New York Times, and Billboard and featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and All Things Considered, WNYC’s Radiolab, and Performance Today. Supported by awards from New Music USA and the National Endowment for the Arts, the ensemble has appeared at the Bang on a Can Marathon, New Music Gathering, and Make Music New York. The ensemble has also performed concerts in thirty national parks across the United States.

The ensemble was also part of the group assembled by Kronos Quartet for the 45th-anniversary performance of Terry Riley’s In C at Carnegie Hall and participated in the premiere of John Luther Adams’s Sila: The Breath of the World at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival.

Bill has produced six critically acclaimed recordings with the GVSU New Music Ensemble, earning recognition on year-end best-of lists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Weekly, Time Out Chicago, and others. The ensemble’s recording of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians spent 11 weeks on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart and was named one of the five best classical recordings of the decade by WNYC’s John Schaefer. Its second recording, In C Remixed, was featured on MTV’s Teen Wolf and in the documentary film As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM. The Reich recording also became the soundtrack to Michael Langan’s award-winning film Choros, which screened at more than 75 film festivals worldwide.

Bill resides in West Michigan with his wife and the numerous pets his three children have left behind. When he isn’t working on music, he can usually be found in the woods running ultramarathons, searching for the perfect IPA, or following the continual struggles of the Detroit Lions and Tigers.