Since 1995 he has worked extensively with National Geographic Television and Film, the Discovery Channel, WNET, CNN, TLC, PBS, A&E, Animal Planet and The History Channel. He has won five BMI awards and contributed music to two Grammy award-winning recordings. He has also won a Teton award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival (2007) for Outstanding Musical Score and a Panda Award for Best Music in 2008 from Wildscreen.
Lenny Williams graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1983 with a BM degree in music composition. Soon after graduation he began a career as a jazz pianist and composer in Washington, D.C. He eventually became a regular performer at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, performing with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and for productions of nationally touring musicals.
From 1993 to the present he has been a full time pianist with the D.C.-based political satire group ‘The Capitol Steps’. From 1988 to 1996 he was the pianist for the late Eva Cassidy, whose posthumous recordings have sold over 12 million copies worldwide. In 2006 he coproduced ‘My Life’ for vocalist Grace Griffith and it received the ‘Album of the Year’ award by the Washington Area Music Association. In 2015 he coproduced recordings for Susan Boyle for Simon Cowell on the SYCO record label.
He currently resides in Kensington, Md.
Haunt of the Hippo
National Geographic Television
Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2001
Hornets from Hell
National Geographic Television
Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2002
On Thin Ice
National Geographic Television
Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2004
Deadly Love
National Geographic Television
Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2005
Christmas in Yellowstone
Nature/PBS
Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2006
Wildscreen Panda Award, Best Music Score 2008
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Best Original Music Score 2007
Battle of the Arctic Giants
National Geographic Television
Nominated, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2004
Superpride
National Geographic Television
Emmy Nominated, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2008
An Original DUCKumentary
Nature/PBS
Emmy Nominated, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2012
Emmy Award for Outstanding Nature Programming 2012
Untamed Americas
National Geographic Channel
Emmy Nominated, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:
Music and Sound, 2012
Nature (TV Series)
WNET/PBS, 29 episodes
National Geographic Ultimate Explorer (TV Series)
National Geographic Channel, 150+ episodes
The Incredible Dr. Pol (TV Series)
Nat Geo WILD, Seasons 2, 3 & 4
Dogtown (TV Series)
Nat Geo WILD, all sesaons
Snake Salvation (TV Series)
National Geographic Channel, Season 1
America the Wild (TV Series)
Nat Geo WILD, Season 4
Mystery Files (TV Series)
National Geographic Channel, Seasons 1 and 2
America's Wild Spaces (TV Series)
Nat Geo WILD, 8 episodes
Bug Attack (TV Series)
National Geographic Channel, 4 episodes
Harvest of Empire (Award-winning feature documentary) (2012)
Angkor: Land of the Gods (TV Mini-Series Documentary) (2011)
Smithsonian Channel
Secret Weapon of the Confederacy (TV Movie Documentary) (2011)
National Geographic Channel
9/11: Where Were You? (TV Movie Documentary) (2011)
National Geographic Television
Undercover History (TV Series):
Lincoln: American Mastermind (2009)
National Geographic Channel
As We Forgive (Documentary Movie) (2008)
Best Documentary Winner, student Academy Awards 2008
Killer Stress
National Geographic Television Special (2008)
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty (TV Movie Documentary) (2007)
National Geographic Channel
After Jesus: The First Christians (2006)
CNN Presents
Predators at War (TV Movie Documentary) (2005)
National Geographic Television
Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming, 2005
Wolf Pack (TV Movie Documentary) (2004)
National Geographic Television/MSNBC
Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming, 2004
Search for the Afghan Girl (TV Movie Documentary) (2003)
National Geographic Television
Psychic Detectives (TV series)
Court TV/TRUTV, 24+ episodes
Real Cowboys (TV series)
History Channel, 4 episodes
A Tale of Two Schools
WETA/PBS
Torturing Democracy
PBS
A Crime of Insanity
Frontline WBGH/PBS
Border Jumpers
Wide Angle /PBS
The Legend of Pale Male (Award-winning Feature Documentary)
Balcony Entertainment/ Bird Jail Productions
Body Of Evidence (TV series)
Court TV/TRUTV, All Seasons
See additional titles on imdb.com.
Aftermath
Body Parts
Cafe
Chamber Music
Duck March
Encounter
Epic Battle
Fire
Getting Through the Darkness
Goofy Montage
Hippos
Horror Show
In the Autumn
Lab at Night
Mystery Files
Nature Promo
Neo Noir
Lenny’s studio in the Washington, DC suburb of Kensington, Maryland features a full recording studio with state-of-the-art digital capabilities. Services include original music composition and recording facilities for documentaries and feature films, advertising campaigns (tv and radio), corporate and promotional videos, radio spots, and voice over for narration.
Lenny Williams | HLW Music LLC
4212-2B Howard Avenue
Kensington, MD 20895
lenny@hlwmusic.com
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