Danielle Williams performs on Rio de Janeiro's largest pipe organ, the Tamburini, at UFRJ's School of Music. Playing works of J.S. Bach, Pachelbel, Buxtehude and others, she is the first American to perform on the world famous instrument since its restoration in early 2012.

Danielle is a music composer and conductor, as well as a performing flautist and organist. Since 2011, she has been Piano Fellow at the Umoja Arts School in Arusha, Tanzania. There, she teaches privately in piano, flute, and voice, and also conducts small youth chamber ensembles. She is also professor of composition/arranging at Makumira University in Usa River, Tanzania.

Danielle received her Bachelors in Music degree in Composition/Theory from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in 2011. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, she was inspired by her parent's photography, poetry and passion for music. Prior to her entry to Vanderbilt, she received studies in piano, flute, percussion, voice, and composition. As a Music Composition major, Danielle soon began taking private orchestral conducting lessons and giving flute performances. In 2008, she began studying organ eventually declaring Organ Performance as a second minor. That same year Danielle attended the Mount Royal Summer Organ Academy in Calgary, where she had the opportunity to study privately with renown organists.

Spending fall 2009 studying in Aix-en-Provence, France, she rehearsed and conducted the Orchestra Philharmoniqe de Provence and the orchestra at Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, as well gave a public organ concert at the impressive Cathedral Saint Saveur. (A lovely, edited recording of this can be enjoyed at: www.vimeo.com/41317380).

This performance was the second for Danielle in Rio, following her concert at Catedral Metropolitano earlier the same summer.

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