William Brittelle

William Brittelle (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based GRAMMY-winning producer, GRAMMY-nominated composer and a creator of hyper-text and multimedia. An avid collaborator, Brittelle has worked with a number of artists across multiple disciplines, including Roomful of Teeth, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Bryce Dessner (The National), Son Lux, Oneohtrix Point Never, A Far Cry, Lower Dens, Duran Duran, Wye Oak, Dirty Projectors, Kanye West, and the Seattle, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Alabama, Grand Rapids and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras, the Basel Sinfonietta, the Nu Deco Ensemble, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His most recent full-length LP entitled Spiritual America featuring Wye Oak, the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, was released by Nonesuch/New Amsterdam in 2019. Prior releases were profiled on NPR's All Things Considered and in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, MUSO, The Nation, and The New Yorker.

Brittelle's work has been presented at venues across the world, including the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Da Camera in Houston, Seattle's Town Hall, the Kahserne in Switzerland, the Freemantle Arts Center in Perth, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Recently, his worked has focused increasingly on complex collaborative networks and interlinked text and multi-media, a trend culminating in the launch of Eternal September, a vast digital alternate reality artistic platform developed in partnership with the Brown Arts Institute and the Metropolis Ensemble. Additional partners include the Cincinnati Symphony, the Walker Art Center, Liquid Music, and the Great Northern Festival. (More info and full list of collaborating artists here.) Additional presenters of Brittelle's multimedia works include the Palm Springs Art Museum, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Chelsea Art Museum.

Increasingly active as a producer, upcoming and recent projects include albums with Alex Temple/Julia Holter/Spektral Quartet, Metropolis Ensemble/Wye Oak, composer Missy Mazzoli, vocalist/percussionist Jodie Landau, the string ensemble Owls, singer/composer Aditya Prakash, movement and voice ensemble Constellation Chor, and keyboardist Erika Dohi. Roomful of Teeth's 2023 album Rough Magic garnered Brittelle a GRAMMY award as producer (BEST SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE) and a nomination as composer (BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION).

Along with composers Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider, Brittelle is the co-founder and co-artistic director of New Amsterdam Records, a GRAMMY-winning non-profit pro-artist record label and artist service organization with a catalog of over 120 releases. He also serves as house producer for Figureight Recordings, a renowned Brooklyn-based studio owned and founded by Shahzad Ismaily. Brittelle has been the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, and ASCAP. He formerly served on the faculty of The New School in New York City, developing and teaching courses in Genre-fluid Music and the Ethos of Punk, and has guest lectured at Juilliard, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, Oberlin, USC, and the Cork Academy of Music. In 2022, Brittelle was named an ongoing member of the Brown Arts Institute's Artistic Innovators Collective.