About William
William received his Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from Juilliard. While a student there he was awarded a Teaching Fellowship in recognition of his teaching abilities. He has over 25 years of experience guiding students from beginning through advanced levels of piano and composition. Mr. Hirtz has been active as a composer too. His “Wizard of Oz Fantasy” for virtuoso piano has been performed on 6 continents (Antarctica is a tough market to crack!) and can be heard on Spotify and YouTube. He scored the feature film “Straight To The Heart”. His album of songs, “Victima Soycumstance” was released in 2013. “Tales Of Orp” a volume of original piano etudes was published by KJOS Music. He is as comfortable teaching and playing classical piano as he is teaching and composing using the modern digital audio tools of today. The New York Times said of his piano debut, “William Hirtz’s “technical and interpretive gifts are considerable”.
