Andrew Cody Williams
Dr. Andrew Cody Williams has years of experience as a professional bassist and educator including teaching at the University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University, and the Bass and Cello Conservatory of Dallas. He is now the founder and teacher of the Palmetto Double Bass Academy, a high quality, accessible group class program based in the Midlands of SC which allows students to learn with world renowned guest artists, sharpen musicianship with peers, and get elite technical, musical, and historical education normally offered to collegiate musicians.
Cody Williams currently performs with the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestras of Aiken, Charleston, Charlotte, Long Bay, Winston-Salem, the South Carolina Ballet, and the Palmetto Concert Band. While based in Texas, he performed with the orchestras of Abilene, Fort Worth, Texarkana, Garland-Las Colinas-Arlington, Richardson, Wichita Falls, Shreveport, Arkansas, the Denton Bach Society, and more. Cody has earned the Artist Award at the H.E.A.R.T. Awards presented by the Greater Denton Arts Council. He has performed solos accompanied by orchestra and has even appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
His recently published works include “Popular Orchestral Excerpt Etudes For Double Bass,” a collection of nine etudes over two books and 160 pages in collaboration with Jeff Bradetich, and “Making Cents: Intonation Considerations Applied to the Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1905) by Serge Koussevitzky” which overcomes double bass specific challenges to intonation.
Cody’s proudest achievement is the family he has built with his wife Regem, and baby Alivia. In his free time, he enjoys their membership at Riverbanks Zoo, walks at local parks and ponds, and participating in swim lessons. He commissioned his bass from Rumano Solano in 2017. It is modeled after Giovanni Battista Rogeri’s 1690s Italian double basses, some of the earliest ever created.