Will Healy is a composer, pianist, and improviser based in New York. Writing music that enables collaborations among many artists regardless of genre boundaries, he is the artistic director of ShoutHouse, a collective of hip-hop, jazz, and classical musicians. In 2021, he was one of the lead arrangers for Kanye West’s DONDA album, and he directed a group of live musicians on a show with Ye in Las Vegas, NV. He has also written original music for concert halls including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and the Kimmel Cultural Campus, including original compositions for the New York Philharmonic’s “Young People’s Concerts”, and composing a piano concerto for Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra with himself on piano. He often performs solo as a piano recitalist, and his repertoire includes J.S. Bach’s complete Well-Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations. For the past two years, he has been serving as composer-in-residence for the Midsummer’s Music Festival in Door County, Wisconsin. Healy studied composition at the Juilliard School, where his primary teachers were Samuel Adler, John Corigliano, and Steven Stucky.
